PEOPLE v. RIVERA


298 A.D.2d 102 (2002)

747 N.Y.S.2d 371

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JUAN RIVERA, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided October 1, 2002.


Testimony by a detective concerning a testifying eyewitness's description of defendant was properly admitted to explain police action (see People v Parris, 247 A.D.2d 221, lv denied 91 N.Y.2d 944). In any event, were we to find this testimony to be improper bolstering, we would find the error to be harmless in view of the strength of the identification testimony (see People v Johnson, 57 N.Y.2d 969...

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