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CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACT FIRST DEGREE IS NOT A LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF PREDATORY ASSAULT AGAINST A CHILD; THE PROSECUTOR IMPROPERLY INJECTED THE INTEGRITY OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE INTO THE CASE (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, dismissing one count without prejudice, determined criminal sexual act first degree is not a lesser included offense of predatory sexual assault against a child. Therefore the jury should not have been so instructed. The court noted that the prosecutor improperly injected the integrity of the District Attorney’s office into the trial by telling the jury he was at a significant advantage because he had been working on the case for more than a year:

As alleged in count one of the indictment, defendant committed predatory sexual assault against a child because, during a certain period of time, and while “being [18] years old or more, [he] engaged in two or more acts of sexual conduct, which included at least one act of sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct, anal sexual conduct or aggravated sexual contact, with a female . . . , who was less than [13] years old.” Thus, by its explicit language, the count of predatory sexual assault against a child was predicated on defendant’s alleged commission of the class B felony of course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree (see Penal Law § 130.75 [1] [b]) and, as a result, the People could not establish that the offense of criminal sexual act in the first degree, a different class B felony, was a lesser included offense of predatory sexual assault against a child within the meaning of CPL 1.20 (37). Stated another way, it is not impossible to commit predatory sexual assault against a child, as the offense was charged in the indictment in this case, without concomitantly, by the same conduct, committing criminal sexual act in the first degree. Indeed, as the offense was charged in the indictment here, a defendant could commit predatory sexual assault against a child by engaging in sexual intercourse or aggravated sexual contact with the victim (see Penal Law §§ 130.96, 130.75 [1] [b]), without concomitantly, by the same conduct, committing criminal sexual act in the first degree (see § 130.50 [3]). People v Getman, 2021 NY Slip Op 06224, Fourth Dept 11-12-21

 

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