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People v. Hagen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 2, 1998
247 A.D.2d 405 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

Opinion

February 2, 1998

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County Browne, J.).


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Any claim of error with respect to the court's decision to reseat a sworn juror after she had been discharged for illness is unpreserved for appellate review since the defendant never objected to this procedure or moved for mistrial on this ground ( see, People v. Finley, 236 A.D.2d 622). In any event, although the court initially erred when it discharged the sworn juror in the absence of defense counsel ( see, People v. Johnson, 189 A.D.2d 318, 320), any prejudice to the defendant was ameliorated when the court recalled the juror and provided defense counsel with the opportunity to question her nunc pro tunc before reseating her ( see, People v. Camacho, 90 N.Y.2d 558; People v. Irizarry, 165 A.D.2d 715).

Furthermore, in this case the trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in failing to impose a sanction for the prosecution's failure to turn over Rosario material, which had been destroyed. The defendant was supplied with so called "Sprint reports" of the complainant's telephone calls to the 911 emergency number, as well as audiotapes of the police radio transmissions concerning the robbery of a taxicab driver. The defendant correctly contends that the "Sprint reports" are not the "duplicative equivalents" of 911 tapes ( see, People v. Joseph, 86 N.Y.2d 565). However, since the defendant's statement acknowledged that he was in the complainant's taxicab, identification was not in issue ( cf., People v. Wallace, 76 N.Y.2d 953; People v. Huynh, 232 A.D.2d 655, 656). It was the defendant's burden to show that the inadvertent loss or destruction of the original 911 tapes prejudiced him before he was entitled to a sanction at trial ( see, People v. Joseph, 86 N.Y.2d 565, 571, supra; People v. Banch, 80 N.Y.2d 610, 616; People v. Haupt, 71 N.Y.2d 929, 930-931; People v. Martinez, 71 N.Y.2d 937, 940). The defendant has not shown how he was prejudiced since he did not identify a single source of cross-examination that was foreclosed ( see, People v. Poole, 48 N.Y.2d 144; People v. Gibbs, 211 A.D.2d 641; People v. Grice, 203 A.D.2d 587, 588 The evidence concerning the codefendant's flight was properly admitted in order to complete the narrative of the events ( see, People v. Cabrera, 238 A.D.2d 603; People v. Leach, 196 A.D.2d 508). We note that any prejudice was properly ameliorated by the court's limiting instruction to the jury ( see, People v. Santiago, 158 A.D.2d 629).

The defendant's contentions with respect to the jury charge are either unpreserved for appellate review ( see, CPL 470.05 ) or do not require reversal.

Miller, J. P., O'Brien, Copertino and McGinity, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Hagen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 2, 1998
247 A.D.2d 405 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
Case details for

People v. Hagen

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CLYDE HAGEN, Appellant

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

Date published: Feb 2, 1998

Citations

247 A.D.2d 405 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
669 N.Y.S.2d 49

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