Court Opinion

ID: 6096339
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 20:28:25.052448+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:53:25.239438
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Appeal from a judgment of Genesee County Court (Noonan, J.), entered May 18, 2000, convicting defendant after a jury trial of, inter alia, sodomy in the first degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him following a jury trial of sodomy in the first degree *1023(Penal Law § 130.50 [1]) and sodomy in the third degree (§ 130.40 [2]). Defendant failed to preserve for our review his contention that County Court erred in failing to instruct the jury that it had to reach a unanimous verdict with respect to the manner in which he forcibly compelled the victim to engage in deviate sexual relations, i.e., by physical force or threat. In any event, that contention lacks merit (see generally People v Clyburn, 212 AD2d 1030 [1995], lv denied 85 NY2d 971 [1995]). Defendant failed to preserve for our review his farther contention that the evidence of forcible compulsion is legally insufficient to support the conviction of sodomy in the first degree (see People v Gray, 86 NY2d 10, 19 [1995]) and, in any event, that contention is lacking in merit. Viewed in the light most favorable to the People (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620, 621 [1983]), the evidence is legally sufficient to establish the element of forcible compulsion by use of physical force and by a threat that placed the victim in fear of immediate death or physical injury (see § 130.00 [8] [a], [b]; Clyburn, 212 AD2d at 1030-1031; see generally People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987]). We further conclude that the verdict is not against the weight of the evidence (see generally Bleakley, 69 NY2d at 495), particularly in view of defendant’s confession. The sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present — Wisner, J.P., Scudder, Kehoe, Gorski and Lawton, JJ.