Court Opinion

ID: 6063699
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 16:18:42.901799+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:57.305427
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Wisner and Scudder, JJ.
(dissenting). We respectfully dissent and would affirm. County Court properly refused to admit in evidence the entire statement defendant made to the police while in custody. Defendant contends that it was admissible to disprove the inference that his testimony at trial was a recent fabrication. We disagree. “[T]he statement was made after defendant was under arrest, and thus after he had a motive to falsify” (People v Sease-Bey, 111 AD2d 195, 196, lv denied 66 NY2d 618; see, People v Benton, 158 AD2d 987, lv denied 75 NY2d 963). A prior consistent statement is not admissible to disprove the inference of recent fabrication where, as here, “the same motive to falsify which exists at the time of the testimony existed at the time the prior consistent statement was made” (People v McClean, 69 NY2d 426, 428; see also, People v McDaniel, 81 NY2d 10, 19). Further, defendant did not limit his offer of proof to the relevant portions of the statement (cf., People v Gallo, 12 NY2d 12, 15-16). (Appeal from Judgment of Monroe County Court, Smith, J. — Manslaughter, 2nd Degree.) Present — Pigott, Jr., P. J., Hayes, Wisner, Scudder and Balio, JJ.