People v. Melendez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Peter J. Benitez, J.), rendered March 19, 2008, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

*531Since defendant’s cross-examination of one of the victims raised issues regarding the details of the descriptions of the perpetrators that the victim gave to the police, and whether the victim could accurately recall those descriptions, the court properly permitted the People to elicit the descriptions from a detective (see People v Figueroa, 35 AD3d 204 [2006], lv…