[Download] "People State New York v. Lushington Lewis" by Court of Appeals of New York * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People State New York v. Lushington Lewis
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 26, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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[69 N.Y.2d 321 Page 323] Opinion OF THE COURT Defendant has been convicted of committing incest* with his 14-year-old daughter and sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison. He is now on parole pursuant to that sentence. He contends on appeal that the judgment must be reversed, first, because the People failed to produce sufficient evidence that the victim was his daughter and that he knew she was, and second, because the trial court erroneously permitted the victim to testify to prior uncharged incestuous acts he allegedly committed with her. There is sufficient evidence in the record to support the conviction but there should be a new trial because the testimony of prior uncharged crimes, not relevant to establish any element of the charged crime, was erroneously received.