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ALTHOUGH THE DEFENDANT VIOLATED THE ORDER OF PROTECTION BY GOING INSIDE THE PROTECTED PERSON’S HOUSE, THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF ANY CONTACT WITH THE PROTECTED PERSON; CRIMINAL CONTEMPT FIRST CONVICTION REDUCED TO CRIMINAL CONTEMPT SECOND (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reducing the criminal contempt first conviction to criminal contempt second, determined the evidence was legally insufficient. The defendant violated the order of protection by going inside the protected person’s house but there was insufficient evidence of any contact between the defendant and the protected person:

… [T]he People adduced legally insufficient evidence that defendant intentionally violated “that part” of the protective order that required him to “stay away from the [protected] person,” as required for a conviction for criminal contempt in the first degree under Penal Law § 215.51 (c) … . Rather, the evidence proves only that defendant committed the lesser included offense of criminal contempt in the second degree under section 215.50 (3) by going to the protected person’s house, and we therefore modify the judgment accordingly … . People v Crittenden, 2020 NY Slip Op 06901, Fourth Dept 11-20-20

 

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