Different charges for different sentencing.As in,25 years for rape and 25 for sodomy.States have laws against sodomy.
Hmm.I did some checking and apparantly New York repealed the sodomy law in 2000.Wonder why they didn't change the charges to reflect this.Maybe just another mistake via the reporters.
http://www.prideagenda.org/pressreleases/pr-sodomyrepealbg.html