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People v. Colon

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jul 2, 1996
229 A.D.2d 301 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)

Opinion

July 2, 1996

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J.).


Defendant's claim that the hearing court should have inspected documents, identified by a police witness as routinely prepared in the course of an arrest and an arrestee's interview, to determine whether or not they were Rosario material, and that the case should be remanded to the hearing court for such a determination, is unpreserved as a matter of law, since defendant's attorney requested only a personal inspection of the documents and not an in camera inspection ( cf., People v. Poole, 48 N.Y.2d 144, 150). We decline to review the claim in the interest of justice, since the court, although it denied defendant the unqualified right to inspect the documents did remind the prosecutor of her discovery obligations, yet defendant never renewed his request.

We find that any error in the court's denial of defendant's request to call his daughter as a witness at the suppression hearing concerning the issue of which jacket defendant was wearing at the time of his arrest was harmless, because the daughter's testimony would not have affected the result of the hearing.

Concur — Murphy, P.J., Wallach, Rubin, Williams and Mazzarelli, JJ.


Summaries of

People v. Colon

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jul 2, 1996
229 A.D.2d 301 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)
Case details for

People v. Colon

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LUIS COLON, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jul 2, 1996

Citations

229 A.D.2d 301 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)
644 N.Y.S.2d 738

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