People v. Baez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Leventhal, J.), rendered January 28, 2002, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court properly admitted into evidence testimony of the description of the perpetrator contained in a radio report overheard by the arresting officer and his partner. The challenged testimony was properly admitted to explain the officers’ presence at the scene, and to avoid speculation by the jury (see People v…