Court Opinion

ID: 5910429
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 03:51:26.684938+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:45:57.930171
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Kupferman, J. P.,
dissents in a memorandum as follows: The defense was misidentification, and this aspect was specifically brought home to the jury in the charge by the court. (Cf., People v Bruno, 77 AD2d 922, 923.)
The defendant was either in his sister’s apartment or else on the stairwell in the same house. He was not some distance away. (See, People v Holt, 67 NY2d 819.)
If error there be in refusing a special alibi charge, harmless error analysis should apply under these circumstances.