Opinion
March 25, 1985
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Deeley, J.).
Judgment affirmed.
Defendant urges that the judgment of conviction should be reversed because the People did not turn over to defense counsel a sworn statement by one of the robbery victims when a request for Brady material was made ( Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83). Although the People should have turned over the statement at the time of the original request, we agree with the trial court that no evidence in the withheld statement was "so material or relevant to defendant's case that * * * [he] was deprived of * * * a fair trial" ( People v. Jones, 85 A.D.2d 50, 52-53). The trial court therefore acted properly in denying defendant's motion to dismiss for failure to hand over the statement. Moreover, defendant (and his codefendant at trial) not only knew all of the facts and information contained in the statement, but were in direct contact with that victim with whom both they and their attorneys spoke. That victim even appeared in court in response to defendant's subpoena and was available to testify.
We have examined defendant's other contentions and have found them to be without merit. Lazer, J.P., Gibbons, Thompson and Niehoff, JJ., concur.