Filed Date: 12/16/2002
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/1/2024
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered March 30, 2000, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant’s contention that the trial court erred in precluding admission of his hospital records which purportedly contain statements indicating that he was assaulted by the police is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.50 [2]; People v Udzinski, 146 AD2d 245). In any event, such hearsay statements were inadmissible since they were not relevant to diagnosis or treatment (see People v Brown, 262 AD2d 328; cf. People v Pette, 251 AD2d 600, 601). Moreover, the hospital records were properly precluded in the absence of the defendant’s testimony because their potential for misleading the jury outweighed any probative value they may have had (see People v Ortiz, 259 AD2d 271, 272).
The defendant further contends that the trial court erred in
The defendant’s remaining contention in his supplemental pro se brief is unpreserved for appellate review. Santucci, J.P., Townes, Crane and Rivera, JJ., concur.