Case ID: ad2d_179/html/0567-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v John Gibson, Appellant.
   Although the detective who arrested defendant should not have been permitted to testify that the arrest was made after a conversation with an eyewitness (People v Holt, 67 NY2d 819, 821), this testimony did not bolster the testimony of a second eyewitness to the robbery, who, like the first victim, said that defendant had previously made purchases in his store. Nor did it bolster the identification testimony of a third victim, who had been twice robbed by defendant in unrelated incidents, and who identified defendant at a lineup. Clearly, the Trowbridge error was harmless (see, People v Burgess, 66 AD2d 667).

Defendant’s remaining claims are unpreserved or meritless. Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Kupferman, Ross and Kassal, JJ.