PEOPLE v. SANABRIA

2075, 6637/03

72 A.D.3d 552 (2010)

898 N.Y.S.2d 842

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RAFAEL SANABRIA, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 22, 2010.


The trial court erred in precluding the defense from investigating the complainant's prior claims of molestation by her doctors. If proven to be false, these claims could have been used to challenge the mentally ill witness's veracity as to her account of what happened here (see People v Hunter, 11 N.Y.3d 1 [2008]). Under the facts of this case, this error cannot be deemed...

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