Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1994

People v. Sutton

People v. Sutton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 7, 1994
209 A.D.2d 456; 619 N.Y.S.2d 575
People v. Sutton

Opinion of the Court

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings *457County (Gerges, J.), rendered January 30, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant failed to establish a factual basis to support his contention that there existed undisclosed Rosario material (see, People v Poole, 48 NY2d 144, 149; People v Billups, 201 AD2d 740; cf., People v Adger, 75 NY2d 723). Accordingly, the trial court properly declined to conduct a hearing with respect to the defendant’s Rosario contention.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in excluding from evidence a police report containing a purported prior inconsistent statement allegedly made by the complainant, since the defense counsel failed to lay a proper foundation for its admission by confronting the complainant with the alleged discrepancies (see, People v Duncan, 46 NY2d 74, cert denied 442 US 910; People v Weldon, 111 NY 569; People v Banks, 151 AD2d 491; People v Jones, 136 AD2d 740; see also, Richardson, Evidence § 501 [Prince 10th ed]).

We have considered the defendant’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Thompson, J. P., Balletta, Rosenblatt and Florio, JJ., concur.

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