People v. Roberts
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Silber, J.), rendered November 23, 2009, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court properly precluded the defense from presenting a witness who would purportedly testify that the defendant made a certain self-serving, exculpatory statement to him. “The general rule is that a party’s self-serving statement is inadmissible at trial when offered in his or her favor, and it may not be introduced…
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