People v. Browning

The admission of testimony that the police officers had been told by three individuals on the street that defendant had a gun was entirely proper, since it was "appropriate narrative testimony, and was not offered to prove the fact that defendant had a gun” (People v Mosely, 200 AD2d 430, 431, lv denied 83 NY2d 856). As the court noted, this testimony was necessary in order to prevent undue speculation by the jury as to why the officers directed their attention to defendant in the first place. The court also properly allowed the prosecutor to elicit on redirect examination that the officers…