People v. Smith

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the case remitted to that court for consideration of the facts.

The role of independent proof to meet the requirements for corroboration under CPL 60.22 (subd 1) is “to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime, not to prove he committed it” (People v Hudson, 51 NY2d 233, 238). For this purpose, matters which in themselves may be of seeming indifference may be “so harmonized ‘ “with the accomplice’s narrative as to have a tendency to furnish the necessary connection between the defendant and…