PEOPLE v. CROVADOR

7495. 2518/12.

165 A.D.3d 610 (2018)

87 N.Y.S.3d 168

2018 NY Slip Op 07273

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jeffrey Crovador, Appellant.

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

Decided October 30, 2018.


The court should have permitted defendant to introduce expert testimony to the effect that witnesses are less likely to accurately identify persons of other racial groups than persons of their own race (see People v LeGrand, 8 N.Y.3d 449, 452-454 [2007]). The case turned on the accuracy of the victim's cross-racial identification of defendant, and there was no corroborating evidence connecting defendant to the crime. Furthermore...

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