People v. Rodriquez

Memorandum. Order of the Appellate Division affirmed.

The identity, description and address of the civilian who was with the undercover police officer when defendant first sold the narcotics was disclosed before trial in the People’s bill of particulars. The civilian was not a confidential or co-operating informant but was himself a police suspect. Thus, the People were under no obligation to produce him at trial.

Defendant’s remarks made in the course of the criminal transaction were not historical narrative; they were instead *978part of the corpus delicti. Hence, they need not have been…