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POLICE OFFICERS PROPERLY ALLOWED TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON IN A SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AS THE DEFENDANT (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department noted that police officers were properly allowed to identify the person in a videotape as the defendant:

The court providently exercised its discretion in permitting two officers to give lay opinion testimony that defendant was the man depicted in a surveillance videotape of the crime. This testimony “served to aid the jury in making an independent assessment regarding whether the man in the was indeed the defendant” … . The quality of the videotape was poor, defendant’s appearance had changed, and the officers had spent sufficient time with defendant to be in a better position than the jurors to identify him on the video … . Any potential prejudice was minimized by the court’s limiting instructions that the officers’ testimony was merely to aid the jury in its independent assessment of whether the man in the video was defendant … . People v Lee, 2021 NY Slip Op 06774, First Dept 12-2-21

 

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