People v. Johnson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

It was error to have admitted, over timely and specific objection, the testimony of the victim’s companion explicitly bolstering, and the testimony of two police officers implicitly bolstering, the victim’s identification of defendant (People v Trowbridge, 305 NY 471). The People, acknowledging the error, argue that defendant’s conviction should be affirmed inasmuch as the error was harmless. We agree.

Harmless error analysis proceeds in two stages. First, “unless the proof of the defendant’s guilt, without…