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Recorded Conversation In Which Defendant Did Not Respond to Statements by Victim that He Had Broken Her Ribs Was Admissible

The First Department determined portions of a recorded phone call in which defendant did not respond to the victim’s statements that he had broker her ribs were admissible because a person in defendant’s position would have been expected to answer:

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting a phone call placed by defendant to the victim while defendant was incarcerated, in which the victim repeatedly stated that defendant had broken her ribs. The record supports the court’s findings that defendant heard and understood the victim’s accusation, and that a person in defendant’s position would have been expected to answer … . Rather than directly addressing the victim’s statement, defendant repeatedly attempted to change the subject, such as by asking the victim whether she meant that he posed a “threat” to her. It is not dispositive that defendant asked the victim to repeat herself after the fourth out of five times she stated that he had broken her ribs, since defendant did not otherwise indicate that he was unable to hear or understood her. Although the phone call was recorded by the Department of Correction pursuant to a standard policy made known to all inmates, the rule excluding “silence in the face of police interrogation” … was not implicated, since defendant’s admissions by silence were made to a civilian. Moreover, the court’s thorough limiting instructions also minimized any potential unfair prejudice. People v Vining, 2015 NY Slip Op 02570, 1st Dept 3-26-15

 

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