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RECORDED JAIL PHONE CALLS MAY NOT HAVE RELATED TO THE OFFENSE WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE TRIAL, CONVICTION REVERSED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing defendant’s conviction, determined recordings of jail phone calls made by the defendant should not have been admitted in this criminal possession of a weapon case. It was possible the recordings related to a subsequent weapons charge, not the charge before the jury:

… [T]he timing and content of the telephone calls made it highly unlikely that the defendant was referencing his September 2014 arrest for the instant offense, rather than his subsequent arrest on the unrelated gun possession charge. Moreover, in addition to the lack of relevance of this evidence to the charges in this case, the jury was unaware of the defendant’s subsequent May 2015 arrest, and therefore was unable to properly evaluate the weight to be accorded to the recordings as evidence of the defendant’s guilt of the instant offense. Thus, there was a substantial risk that the jury would be misled into believing that the defendant’s admissions in the telephone recordings referred to the instant offense. The admission of the recordings into evidence placed the defendant in the untenable position of deciding whether to accept this misleading narrative that the telephone recordings referred to the instant offense or disclose his later arrest on a similar gun possession charge, which disclosure itself would have caused him undue prejudice … . People v Robinson, 2019 NY Slip Op 01799, Second Dept 3-13-19

 

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