People v. Valentin
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 (Schneier, J.), rendered May 29, 1985, convicting him of unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
While the trial court erred in excluding, as hearsay, certain testimony offered to circumstantially prove the defendant’s mental state at the time of this incident (see, People v Ricco, 56 NY2d 320, 328; People v Etheridge, 71 AD2d 861; People v Goodman, 59 AD2d 896), the error was harmless since the proof of the defendant’s guilt…
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