The attorney general can use evidence of a 30-year-old dismissed rape charge to bolster its case for the civil confinement of a convicted kidnapper accused of sex crimes, a judge in Dutchess County has ruled.
Acting Supreme Court Justice Peter Forman (See Profile), in what is apparently the first application of a recent Court of Appeals ruling, said evidence of a 1984 occurrence is “sufficiently reliable and probative to permit expert testimony about that incident.”
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