Court Opinion

ID: 5799132
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:24:17.933282+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:31.102441
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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered on January 9, 1975, affirmed. Concur—Lupiano, Lane and Nunez, JJ.; Markewich, J. P., and Capozzoli, J., dissent in the following memorandum by Markewich, J. P.:—There is no doubt whatever that defendant-appellant requires psychiatric treatment. The bizarre nature of the sexual indignities visited upon his victim should point to such a conclusion. Moreover, at sentence, the court recognized the need in so many words. And yet there was no referral for a psychiatric evaluation. This seems to me to have been an abuse of discretion so grave as to be a matter of law. I would vacate the sentence and remand for resentence after consideration of an appropriate report.