People v. Inoa
Annotate this CaseDefendant and Oman Gutierrez were charged with the first degree murder of Edward Contreras. It was alleged that Defendant murdered Contreras at Gutierrez’s request. New York City Police Detective Rolando Rivera testified for the prosecution as an expert respecting uncoded portions of recorded conversations of phone calls made by Gutierrez while in prison. Defendant was convicted. Defendant appealed, arguing that Rivera should not have been permitted to testify as an expert regarding the conversations because he invaded the fact-finding province of the jury and impermissibly bolstered the testimony of certain prosecution witnesses. The Appellate Division affirmed. The Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that although considerable portions of Rivera’s testimony were admitted in error, the error was harmless.
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