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DEFENDANT PROPERLY IMPEACHED WITH SPONTANEOUS STATEMENTS MADE TO THE POLICE AT THE SCENE OF HIS ARREST; SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT MADE NO MENTION OF AN ATTACK ON DEFENDANT BY THE COMPLAINANT WHICH DEFENDANT DESCRIBED AT TRIAL.

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge DiFiore, with a concurring opinion, determined defendant was properly impeached with a spontaneous statement made to police at the time of his arrest for robbing the complainant. At trial, defendant testified the complainant had struck him with a board. However, the alleged attack with a board was not mentioned in defendant’s spontaneous statement at the scene:

Here … defendant’s statement was not the product of interrogation, but was made spontaneously at the scene, prior to the issuance of Miranda warnings. In addition, the substance of defendant’s spontaneous statement was not inculpatory, but a description of the complainant’s conduct and was made to inform the police when the information was timely to their decision as to whether to arrest defendant or complainant. Even more significant, defendant admitted in his direct testimony that he was not silent and that he had given the police his version of complainant’s misconduct at the scene. Consequently, the credibility of his initial spontaneous statement was legitimately called into question by his trial testimony.

Here, defendant elected to provide some explanation of what happened at the scene, and it was unnatural to have omitted the significantly more favorable version of events to which he testified at trial — that complainant had assaulted him. “[D]efendant’s conspicuous omission of these exculpatory facts in his voluntary statement to police tended to show that his trial testimony was a recent fabrication” … . People v Chery, 2016 NY Slip Op 07109, CtApp 11-1-16

 

CRIMINAL LAW (DEFENDANT PROPERLY IMPEACHED WITH SPONTANEOUS STATEMENTS MADE TO THE POLICE AT THE SCENE OF HIS ARREST; SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT MADE NO MENTION OF AN ATTACK ON DEFENDANT BY THE COMPLAINANT WHICH DEFENDANT DESCRIBED AT TRIAL)/EVIDENCE DEFENDANT PROPERLY IMPEACHED WITH SPONTANEOUS STATEMENTS MADE TO THE POLICE AT THE SCENE OF HIS ARREST; SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT MADE NO MENTION OF AN ATTACK ON DEFENDANT BY THE COMPLAINANT WHICH DEFENDANT DESCRIBED AT TRIAL/IMPEACHMENT (CRIMINAL LAW, DEFENDANT PROPERLY IMPEACHED WITH SPONTANEOUS STATEMENTS MADE TO THE POLICE AT THE SCENE OF HIS ARREST; SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT MADE NO MENTION OF AN ATTACK ON DEFENDANT BY THE COMPLAINANT WHICH DEFENDANT DESCRIBED AT TRIAL)/STATEMENTS (CRIMINAL LAW, IMPEACHMENT, DEFENDANT PROPERLY IMPEACHED WITH SPONTANEOUS STATEMENTS MADE TO THE POLICE AT THE SCENE OF HIS ARREST; SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT MADE NO MENTION OF AN ATTACK ON DEFENDANT BY THE COMPLAINANT WHICH DEFENDANT DESCRIBED AT TRIAL)

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