The People v. Louis Speaks

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was convicted, following a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the first degree and two counts of robbery in the second degree. On appeal, defendant argues that the trial court abused its discretion as a matter of law in permitting a detective to testify about descriptions of the robbers given by one testifying witness and one nontestifying witness. All but one of defendant’s challenges to this testimony are un-preserved for our review because defense counsel only lodged a single-word “hearsay”…