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When to give jury intoxication charge debated

Deciding if the jury should have been given an intoxication charge in a Rochester rape trial is before the state Court of Appeals. The first comparison to come out during recent oral arguments was People v. Sirico, 17 NY3d 744, a June 2011 decision in which the state’s highest court found “bare assertions by a defendant ...