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ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY AFFIRMED DEFENDANT’S CONVICTION, THE TWO DISSENTERS WOULD HAVE DISMISSED THE INDICTMENT BECAUSE THE TESTIMONY OF THE POLICE OFFICERS AT THE SUPPRESSION HEARING DESCRIBING THE TRAFFIC STOP WAS NOT CREDIBLE (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, affirming defendant’s conviction, rejected the argument that the police officer’s testimony at the suppression hearing describing the traffic stop was incredible. The two-justice dissent disgreed:

From the dissent:

… [W]e conclude that “the significant inconsistencies and gaps in memory . . . [in] the testimony of the police officers who testified at the hearing bear negatively on their overall credibility” … . Neither of the two officers who testified could recall with clarity any of the details of their stop of the vehicle in which defendant was a passenger, with one officer acknowledging that the only thing that he could recall was that he “smelled mari[h]uana.” The officers disagreed whether that smell was of burnt or burning marihuana. Inasmuch as both officers testified that they each had conducted innumerable traffic stops where marihuana was involved, their inability to recall further details regarding this particular stop undermines the reliability of the officers’ testimony. We therefore conclude that, because the lapses in the officers’ memory of the stop render their testimony unworthy of belief, the People failed to meet their burden of coming forward with sufficient evidence to establish the legality of the police conduct in the first instance … . People v Stroud, 2021 NY Slip Op 07375, Fourth Dept 12-23-21

 

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