PEOPLE v. WATTS

2013-11049, Ind. No. 2219/10.

176 A.D.3d 981 (2019)

111 N.Y.S.3d 682

2019 NY Slip Op 07426

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Simon Watts, Appellant.

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

Decided October 16, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP, Garden City, NY ( Donna Aldea and Danielle Muscatello of counsel), for appellant.

John M. Ryan , Acting District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY ( John M. Castellano , Johnnette Traill , and Nancy Fitzpatrick Talcott of counsel), for respondent.

Rivera, J.P., Roman, Miller and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for a new trial.

In 2010, the defendant, a former public school teacher of third- and fourth-grade children, was charged with committing various sexual crimes against five of his students. At a pretrial conference, the People indicated that they would not be introducing evidence of certain alleged uncharged complaints made against the defendant by additional...

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