Court Opinion

ID: 5673671
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 14:20:55.019301+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:39:41.662775
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Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Perone, J.), rendered December 12, 2001, convicting him of engaging in a course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree, sexual abuse in the second degree, and endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly precluded the defendant from introducing evidence of third-party culpability since the proffered evidence was based on mere speculation and lacked any probative value (see People v Primo, 96 NY2d 351, 357 [2001]).
Furthermore, the trial court properly exercised its discretion in allowing expert testimony on the subject of child sexual abuse syndrome (see People v Cintron, 75 NY2d 249, 267 [1990]; People v Garcia, 205 AD2d 554, 555 [1994]; People v Henderson, 156 AD2d 92, 102 [1990]).
The defendant’s remaining contention is without merit. Altman, J.P., S. Miller, Krausman and Cozier, JJ., concur.