PEOPLE v. OVERTON

1328, 562/05, 2016/05.

66 A.D.3d 604 (2009)

888 N.Y.S.2d 477

2009 NY Slip Op 7758

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JAMES OVERTON, Appellant.

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

Decided October 29, 2009.


Since defendant objected on different grounds from those he raises on appeal, he has not preserved his present challenge to the introduction into evidence of a letter found on his person that contained instructions for completing a particular drug transaction, and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we also reject it on the merits. The letter was not hearsay, since it was not received for the truth of its contents, but to demonstrate...

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