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PEOPLE v. RYANT

3685, 4837/08.

78 A.D.3d 570 (2010)

913 N.Y.S.2d 153

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RICHARD RYANT, Appellant.

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

Decided November 23, 2010.

Testimony that the police found two blackened glass pipes in defendant's backpack constituted irrelevant and prejudicial evidence of an uncharged crime, and the prosecutor's summation comments on this evidence were also improper. However, we find that these errors were harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt (see People v Crimmins, 36 N.Y.2d 230 [1975]). The police arrested defendant immediately after a witness...

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