Opinion
March 10, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Thomas Galligan, J.).
Since defendant's offer of proof failed to establish the relevance of the witness's prospective testimony, the court's refusal to permit defendant to call the witness was proper (People v. Arroyo, 77 N.Y.2d 947, 948). To the extent that the proffered testimony may have corroborated defendant's own testimony, it did so only as to collateral matters (People v. Perez, 236 A.D.2d 298, lv denied 89 N.Y.2d 1039). In any event, any error in precluding such testimony was harmless given that the testimony could not have affected the verdict.
Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Rubin and Tom, JJ.