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LAY WITNESSES PROPERLY ALLOWED TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON DEPICTED IN A VIDEO AS THE DEFENDANT (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department determined two lay witnesses were properly allowed to give their opinion that the person depicted in a video was the defendant:

The court providently exercised its discretion in permitting two witnesses to give lay opinion testimony that defendant was the person depicted in photos from surveillance videotapes from areas in and around the building where the robbery occurred and at the shelter where defendant resided both several months prior to the robbery and at the time of the robbery. This testimony “served to aid the jury in making an independent assessment regarding whether the man in the [videos] was indeed the defendant” … , because there was “some basis for concluding that the witness[es] [were] more likely to correctly identify the defendant from the [videos] than [was] the jury” … .

The People established that defendant’s appearance had changed since the crime in several significant respects. Furthermore, the witnesses, who were sufficiently familiar with defendant, were able to recognize defendant’s mannerisms and peculiar way of walking. In addition, the record establishes the poor quality of the photographic evidence. People v Rivera, 2019 NY Slip Op 02262 [170 AD3d 566], First Dept 3-26-19

 

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