Opinion
Argued April 22, 1999
June 7, 1999
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), rendered March 13, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Katherine R. Schaefer of counsel), for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Roseann B. MacKechnie, Jodi L. Mandel, and Scott R. Emery of counsel), for respondent.
DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., DANIEL W. JOY, GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly refused to admit into evidence a videotaped statement of the defendant, made after he had ample opportunity to reflect ( see, People v. Dalton, 88 N.Y.2d 561; People v. Williams, 203 A.D.2d 498, 499). The videotaped statement was irrelevant unless offered for its truth and therefore constituted inadmissible hearsay ( see, People v. Reynoso, 73 N.Y.2d 816).