PEOPLE v. LITTLEJOHN

2009-06389

112 A.D.3d 67 (2013)

974 N.Y.S.2d 77

2013 NY Slip Op 7063

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. DARRYL LITTLEJOHN, Appellant.

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

Decided October 30, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn W.L. Fahey , New York City ( William Kastin of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes , District Attorney, Brooklyn ( Leonard Joblove and Victor Barall of counsel), for respondent.

HALL, LOTT and SGROI, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MASTRO, J.P.

On this appeal by the defendant from a judgment convicting him of murder in the first degree, we principally are called upon to determine whether the introduction at trial of certain evidence of other crimes committed by the defendant, for the purpose of proving the defendant's identity as the killer, constituted reversible error. We conclude that while some of the challenged evidence was improperly admitted, the error was...

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