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people v. jovanovic

people v. jovanovic , 263 a.d. 2d 182 , 700 n.y.s. 2d 156 -lrb- n.y. app .
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in 1996 , oliver jovanovic -lrb- born 1966 -rrb- was accused of sadomasochistic torture of a woman , later identified as jamie rzucek , whom he had met shortly before on the internet .
he was convicted in 1998 and the conviction was overturned on appeal in 1999 because parts of email messages between the two had been improperly excluded as evidence at trial .
rzucek declined to testify during the retrial in 2001 and the case was dropped .
