People v Gossom (2025 NY Slip Op 06481)
People v Gossom
2025 NY Slip Op 06481 [243 AD3d 1343]
November 21, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 6, 2027


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Roqawn Gossom, Appellant. (Appeal No. 2.)

The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Allison V. McMahon of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Michael J. Keane, District Attorney, Buffalo (Mindy F. Vanleuvan of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Deborah A. Haendiges, J.), rendered February 9, 2022. The judgment convicted defendant upon his plea of guilty of rape in the second degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Same memorandum as in People v Gossom ([appeal No. 1] 243 AD3d 1343 [4th Dept 2025]). Present—Bannister, J.P., Montour, Smith, Greenwood and Hannah, JJ.