Court Opinion

ID: 5535334
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 18:19:42.82605+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:34:41.122841
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OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
We do not reach the question of negative identification argued by defendant. On defendant’s attorney’s cross-examination of one of the victims, he asked whether she had ever said she did not get a good look at the perpetrator. Her unresponsive answer was that she had been shown a number of photographs at the time she made that statement. By failing to move to strike that unresponsive an*742swer, defendant’s attorney opened the door to an explanation by the People concerning the circumstances under which she had seen the photographs (cf. People v Melendez, 55 NY2d 445, 451-452).