People v. Valdes

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered December 3, 1986, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and sentencing him to an indeterminate prison term of from 20 years to life, is unanimously affirmed.

The People cannot introduce evidence on rebuttal merely to attack defendant’s credibility. However, the People’s use of the videotaped interrogation session in this case was entirely proper in light of the fact that defendant himself brought into issue a material fact upon which the videotape was relevant. Where, as here, a witness…