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CO-CONSPIRATOR EXCEPTION TO THE HEARSAY RULE EXPLAINED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, affirming the convictions, explained the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule. A two-justice partial dissent argued there was insufficient evidence of defendant’s guilt of murder, attempted murder and assault as an accessory:

…[T]he court properly admitted in evidence the text messages sent by the female codefendant to defendant’s cell phone pursuant to the coconspirator exception to the hearsay rule. ” ‘A declaration by a coconspirator during the course and in furtherance of the conspiracy is admissible against another coconspirator as an exception to the hearsay rule’ ” … . Such a declaration may be admitted only where the People have established a prima facie case of conspiracy ” ‘without recourse to the declarations [of that coconspirator]’ ” … . “The prima facie case of conspiracy does not need to be established before the coconspirator’s statements are admitted in evidence, so long as ‘the People independently establish a conspiracy by the close of their case’ ” … . People v Brown, 2025 NY Slip Op 04331, Fourth Dept 7-25-25

Practice Point: Consult this decision for insight into the application of the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule.

 

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