Associate Judge Rowan Wilson, who has for six years served as a member of the Court of Appeals, under consideration for chief judge of New York's highest court, appears poised for confirmation by the Democratic-controlled state Senate, after Monday's three-hour hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Republican members, along with advocates for sexual assault survivors, expressed deep concern about a decision Wilson recently authored that overturned a jury's rape conviction, because of the lack of a speedy trial.