People v Richards (Jeffrey)
2003 NY Slip Op 51292(U)
Decided on September 19, 2003
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
Appellate Term, First Department


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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the Official Reports.

Digest-Index Classification:
Unclassified—Unclassified

Decided on September 19, 2003
APPELLATE TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT, FIRST DEPARTMENT

PRESENT:
HON. WILLIAM J. DAVIS, J.P.
HON. PHYLLIS GANGEL-JACOB
HON. MARTIN SCHOENFELD , Justices.
570504/02

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Plaintiff-Respondent,

against

JEFFREY RICHARDS,


[*2]Defendant-Appellant.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court, Bronx County, rendered March 8, 2002 after a nonjury trial (Eugene Oliver, Jr., J.) convicting him of two counts of attempted forcible touching (Penal Law §§ 110.00/130.52[2]) and two counts of attempted sexual abuse in the second degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00/130.60[2]), and imposing sentence.


PER CURIAM:

Judgement of conviction rendered March 8, 2002 (Eugene Oliver, Jr., J.) affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis for disturbing the factfinder's determinations concerning credibility. The infant complainant's account of the sex offenses was believable and her delay in reporting the initial incidents was adequately explained by the evidence.

This constitutes the decision and order of the court.