Opinion
May 8, 1989
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Cohen, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant alleges that he was prejudiced by a delay in turning over certain Rosario material before cross-examination of a witness at the Wade hearing. When he received the statements after the hearing but before trial, the defendant did not seek to reopen the hearing to further cross-examine the witness. By failing to request the reopening of the hearing, the defendant has failed to preserve the claimed error for appellate review.
We further find that the trial court properly denied the defendant's motion for separate trials of the two criminal incidents included in the indictment. This case involved two sexual assaults committed against two elderly women, close in time, in the same geographic area, with the same unique modus operandi. The two offenses were properly joined because they were of such a nature that proof of one "would be material and admissible as evidence in chief upon a trial" of the other (CPL 200.20 [b]). Evidence of each offense was probative and admissible to prove the identity of the perpetrator of the other offense (see, People v Beam, 57 N.Y.2d 241, 250-251; People v Molineux, 168 N.Y. 264; People v Clark, 129 A.D.2d 724, 725; People v Andrews, 109 A.D.2d 939, 942). Accordingly, denial of the motion was proper (see, People v Griffin, 132 A.D.2d 569; People v Diaz, 122 A.D.2d 279, lv denied 68 N.Y.2d 999).
Finally, the defendant's claim that his sentence is excessive is meritless (see, People v Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80). Mollen, P.J., Kunzeman, Spatt and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.