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PEOPLE v. CULLEN

No. 167

24 N.Y.3d 1014 (2014)

21 N.E.3d 1009

997 N.Y.S.2d 348

2014 NY Slip Op 07202

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. WILLIAM CULLEN, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided October 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hiscock Legal Aid Society, Syracuse ( Kristen N. McDermott of counsel), for appellant.

William J. Fitzpatrick , District Attorney, Syracuse ( James P. Maxwell and Maria Maldonado of counsel), for respondent.

Judges GRAFFEO, READ, PIGOTT and ABDUS-SALAAM concur; Chief Judge LIPPMAN concurs in result in an opinion in which Judge RIVERA concurs; Judge SMITH concurs in result for reasons stated in his concurring opinion in (, 233 [2014] [decided today]).

OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Complainant, who was born in 1993, discovered the identity of her biological father, defendant William Cullen, in early 2006 when she was 12 years old. She expressed a desire to get to know him, and her mother arranged for the three of them to meet at a restaurant at a local mall. In June 2006, just after complainant...

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