Opinion
July 8, 1985
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Farlo, J.).
Judgment affirmed.
Defendant seeks reversal of his conviction for robbery in the first degree on the ground that the People improperly failed to make available the arresting officer's memo book. The trial record clearly establishes that defendant sought to discover the officer's written notes of complainant's original description of defendant. Once it was shown that the complainant's original description was not contained in the memo book, but was contained in a scratch complaint report, and the defense received the complaint report, which did contain the subject description, the request was abandoned by defense counsel. In fact, the memo book contained no statements by the complainant. Although generally an officer's memo book is discoverable, under these circumstances the People's failure to produce the arresting officer's memo book at the trial does not constitute error ( see, CPL 240.45; People v. Consolazio, 40 N.Y.2d 446, cert denied 433 U.S. 914; People v. Payne, 52 N.Y.2d 743; cf. People v. Perez, 65 N.Y.2d 154). Mollen, P.J., Bracken, Niehoff and Rubin, JJ., concur.