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Error to Impeach Defendant Re: Failure to Offer Exculpatory Version to Police; Error to Comment on Defendant’s Post-Arrest Silence (Harmless However)

The First Department determined it was error for County Court to have allowed the prosecutor to impeach defendant with his failure to present to the police an exculpatory version of events and to allow the prosecutor to comment upon defendant’s post-arrest silence:

County Court erred in allowing the prosecution, over the defendant’s objection, to impeach the defendant’s testimony with his failure to come forward to the police with an exculpatory version of the events, and in allowing the People to comment upon the defendant’s post-arrest silence in summation ….  People v Copp, 2013 NY Slip Op 04619, 2nd Dept, 6-19-13

 

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