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People v. Brooks

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Mar 17, 1995
213 A.D.2d 999 (N.Y. App. Div. 1995)

Opinion

March 17, 1995

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Monroe County, Doyle, J.

Present — Pine, J.P., Lawton, Wesley, Callahan and Doerr, JJ.


Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of robbery in the second degree and petit larceny for holding up a clerk at a Cadet Cleaners store in Rochester. Defendant contends that he was deprived of his right to a fair trial when, during recross-examination, a police officer erroneously testified that defendant had an outstanding parole warrant. Any prejudice to defendant that might have arisen from the mention of uncharged criminal activity was alleviated when Supreme Court sustained defendant's objection and gave prompt curative instructions to the jury (see, People v. Santiago, 52 N.Y.2d 865, 866; People v. Young, 48 N.Y.2d 995, 996; People v Gilliard, 171 A.D.2d 531, 532, lv denied 77 N.Y.2d 995). In addition, following the court's curative instructions, defense counsel neither objected further nor requested a mistrial. Under those circumstances, the curative instructions must be deemed to have corrected the error to defendant's satisfaction (see, People v. Heide, 84 N.Y.2d 943; People v. Williams, 46 N.Y.2d 1070, 1071).

We reject the contention of defendant that the prejudicial impact of the officer's testimony was significantly aggravated when the court, over defense objection, permitted defendant to be taken into custody on other outstanding warrants. The jury was not present when that occurred, and there is nothing in the record to indicate that the jury was aware of defendant's arrest.


Summaries of

People v. Brooks

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Mar 17, 1995
213 A.D.2d 999 (N.Y. App. Div. 1995)
Case details for

People v. Brooks

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JEROLD BROOKS…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Mar 17, 1995

Citations

213 A.D.2d 999 (N.Y. App. Div. 1995)
624 N.Y.S.2d 319

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