PEOPLE v. RUIZ

7719. 5917N/12.

166 A.D.3d 544 (2018)

89 N.Y.S.3d 45

2018 NY Slip Op 08088

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Carlos Ruiz, Appellant.

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

Decided November 27, 2018.


The court providently exercised its discretion in permitting an expert to explain coded language in recorded conversations between defendant and a confidential informant. Defendant argues that because the informant testified and could have been asked to define the code words, the expert testimony should have been excluded as unnecessary. However, it was permissible for the People to employ expert testimony to establish the coded...

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