People v. Perez

Decision Date10 January 2012
Citation91 A.D.3d 673,935 N.Y.S.2d 897,2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 00228
PartiesThe PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Carlos PEREZ, appellant.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

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Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y., and Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, N.Y. (Thomas E. Riley and Annemarie DiNicola of counsel), for appellant (one brief filed).

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Camille O'Hara Gillespie, and W. Rudolph Kleysteuber of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Del Guidice, J.), rendered March 8, 2010, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The two complainants saw the defendant carrying their laptop computers and other items while the defendant was leaving the apartment building in which one of the complainants resided. The complainants followed the defendant and retrieved their property from him. They were both able to view the defendant from several feet away. They also both immediately picked the defendant out of separate lineups.

At trial, defense counsel challenged a police sergeant's ability to remember a description of everything the complainants had told him after he responded to the scene of the crime. On redirect examination, the prosecutor asked the sergeant to state how one of the complainants described the defendant. The Supreme Court allowed the sergeant to answer over the defendant's objection. The jury ultimately found the defendant guilty of burglary in the second degree.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, the testimony elicited from the sergeant on redirect examination was not inadmissible hearsay, since it was not offered for the truth of the matter asserted, but only to establish the sergeant's ability to remember the...

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    ...elicited to prove the truth of a declarant's statement, but for other reasons, that statement was not hearsay ( see People v. Perez, 91 A.D.3d 673, 673, 935 N.Y.S.2d 897), much less testimonial hearsay. Moreover, even if some of the declarations retrieved from the wiretapped conversations a......
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    ... ... incident, as the testimony assisted the jury in evaluating ... the complainant's opportunity to observe and identify ... defendant which was at issue at the trial (see People v ... Huertas, 75 N.Y.2d 487, 493 [1990]; People v ... Perez, 91 A.D.3d 673, 674 [2012]; People v ... Linton, 62 A.D.3d 722, 723 [2009]; People v ... Figueroa, 35 A.D.3d 204 [2006]; People v ... Ragunauth, 24 A.D.3d 472 [2005]; Hall, 2018 NY ... Slip Op 50566[U], *1). In any event, error, if any, in ... permitting the police officer's testimony was ... ...
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