Opinion ID: 540010
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Magistrate's Complaint.

Text: 216 Cruz claims that he was entitled to offer the complaint which was filed against him on June 24, 1987 immediately following his arrest in order to reveal inconsistencies between the information contained in the complaint and the testimony of the arresting officers who entered the apartment and made the arrests. The officer who filed the complaint was not one of the officers who first entered the apartment. In filling out the report, he was only recounting the descriptions given to him by the other officers on the scene. The district court therefore properly excluded this document as hearsay pursuant to Fed.R.Evid. 802. We note also that the NYDETF agents who participated in the raid, as well as the agent who swore to the complaint, testified at trial and were available for cross-examination by Cruz' counsel. 217