People v Brown
2010 NY Slip Op 04211 [73 AD3d 940]
May 11, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, June 30, 2010


The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
James Clark Brown, Appellant.

[*1]Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Joshua M. Levine of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Gary Fidel and Ayelet Sela ofcounsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County(Cooperman, J.), rendered August 9, 2007, convicting him of rape in the first degree (twocounts), attempted rape in the first degree, criminal sexual assault in the first degree (twocounts), and robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, the trial court did not err in refusing to give anintoxication charge to the jury (see Penal Law § 15.25). Viewing the intoxicationevidence in the light most favorable to the defendant (see People v Gaines, 83 NY2d925, 927 [1994]), we find that it was insufficient to allow a reasonable person to entertain adoubt as to the element of intent (id.; see People v Sirico, 66 AD3d 1047 [2009]; People vGarcia, 271 AD2d 695 [2000]; People v Hernandez, 161 AD2d 664 [1990];People v Rodriguez, 155 AD2d 627 [1989], affd 76 NY2d 918 [1990]). Dillon,J.P., Miller, Dickerson and Chambers, JJ., concur.


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