Title: The People v. John P. Daly

State: new-york

Issuer: New York Appellate Court

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No. 41  
The People &c.,
            Respondent,
        v.
John P. Daly,
            Appellant.
Thomas F. Liotti, for appellant.
Andrea M. DiGregorio, for respondent.
MEMORANDUM:
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Whether violations of People v Rosario (9 NY2d 286
[1961]) and/or Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]), resulting in
the reversal of convictions on certain counts, also require
reversal of convictions on other, jointly tried counts is a
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question to be resolved on a case-by-case basis.  Reversal of
the jointly tried counts is required only if there is a
"reasonable possibility that the evidence supporting the . . .
tainted counts influenced the guilty verdicts on the other
[counts]" (People v Baghai-Kermani, 84 NY2d 525, 532 [1994]).
Here, there is no reasonable possibility that the
evidence supporting the tainted counts, which related to a
robbery and shooting at an off-track betting parlor, had a
spillover effect on the other guilty verdicts, relating to an
attempted robbery and shooting at a gas station.  The documents
that the People failed to disclose related exclusively to the
off-track betting parlor counts.  Moreover, there was strong,
independent proof of the defendant's guilt on the gas station
counts, including evidence that the defendant's revolver was the
source of the bullet removed from the shooting victim; that the
owner of the gas station and the victim identified defendant;
that the owner, the victim and an attendant all recognized the
perpetrator as a person they had previously seen at the gas
station, who drove a pickup truck with the same identifying
features as the defendant's truck; and that the defendant was
identified in a lineup as the perpetrator of the gas station
crimes.  A thorough review of the record reveals no reasonable
possibility that the Rosario and Brady violations had an impact
on defendant's ability to defend against the gas station counts
or otherwise influenced the verdicts on those counts.
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Order affirmed, in a memorandum.  Chief Judge Lippman and Judges
Ciparick, Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Jones concur.
Decided May 4, 2010