People v. Jovanovic

People v. Jovanovic
Seal of New York
Court	New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department
Full case name	The People of the State of New York, v. Oliver Jovanovic
Decided	2001
Citations	263 A.D.2d 182, 700 N.Y.S.2d 156 (NY Appellate Div., 1st Dept. 1999)
Court membership
Judge sitting	William Wetzel
Case opinions
The trial court's evidentiary rulings incorrectly applied the Rape Shield Law and, as a result, improperly hampered defendant's ability to present a defense, requiring reversal of his conviction and remand for a new trial.

People v. Jovanovic, 263 A.D.2d 182, 700 N.Y.S.2d 156 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st Dep't 1999), was a highly publicized criminal case in New York. In 1996, Oliver Jovanovic (born 1966) was accused of sadomasochistic torture of a woman, later identified as Jamie Rzucek,^[1] whom he had met shortly before on the Internet. He was convicted in 1998 and the conviction was overturned on appeal in 1999 because parts of email messages between the two had been improperly excluded as evidence at trial. Rzucek declined to testify during the retrial in 2001 and the case was dropped.^{[citation needed]}