Court Opinion

ID: 6028640
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 12:36:25.999811+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:07.658310
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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J., at first trial and sentencing; Edward McLaughlin, J., at second trial and sentencing), rendered May 11, 1995, convicting defendant, after separate jury trials, of one count of attempted grand larceny in the fourth degree, two counts of criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and one count of petit larceny, and sentencing him to two consecutive prison terms of 1 year concurrent with two concurrent prison terms of 1 year, unanimously affirmed.
On the existing record, which defendant has not sought to amplify by a CPL 440.10 motion (see, People v Love, 57 NY2d 998), we conclude that defendant received effective assistance of counsel at both trials (see, People v Baldi, 54 NY2d 137). Defendant has not demonstrated the “absence of strategic or other legitimate explanations” for the conduct of counsel at the first trial or that of the new counsel assigned for the retrial that followed a hung jury as to certain counts (People v Rivera, 71 NY2d 705, 709), or that counsel’s purported errors caused any prejudice (People v Hobot, 84 NY2d 1021, 1024).
At both trials, the court properly admitted into evidence a tape of a 911 call under the present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, since the tape, in edited form, was a “spontaneous description * * * of events made contemporaneously with the observation” of those events (People v Brown, 80 NY2d 729, 734) and was “sufficiently corroborated” (supra, at 734) by testimony that defendant was found in the parking lot and that a car’s window was shattered. Concur — Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin, Wallach and Williams, JJ.