People v. Kennedy

Memorandum. The introduction, over timely objection, of evidence of similar unrelated crimes was not error since the modus opermidi was sufficiently unique, and thus properly admitted, to bear on the issue of identity (People v. Condon, 26 N Y 2d 139; People v. Molineux, 168 N. Y. 264). As to the unresponsive statements of two witnesses that they had made pretrial identifications of the defendants from photographs (People v. Caserta, 19 N Y 2d 18; People v. Cioffi, 1 N Y 2d 70), suffice it to say that the record reflects that in all instances where objection was properly taken, the trial…