Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rodney Munnerlyn, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2012-02-14
Citations: 92 A.D.3d 507
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Rodney Munnerlyn, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 92
Pages: 507–508

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Rodney Munnerlyn, Appellant.
[937 NYS2d 858]

Opinion:
The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant's request to present expert testimony on eyewitness identification. The threshold inquiry in considering such an application is "deciding whether the case 'turns on the accuracy of eyewitness identifications and there is little or no corroborating evidence connecting the defendant to the crime' " (People v Santiago, 17 NY3d 661, 669 [2011]). Here, there were two strong eyewitness identifications, as well as many items of circumstantial evidence that, when viewed as a whole, provided substantial corroboration. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Moskowitz, Freedman and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.