PEOPLE v. POLANCO


50 A.D.3d 587 (2008)

856 N.Y.S.2d 601

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RUBEN POLANCO, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided April 29, 2008.


With appropriate limiting instructions, the court permitted a detective involved in the investigation to testify as an expert on coded drug-related conversations and to interpret a particular recorded conversation that was the principal evidence supporting the sale conviction. This testimony was generally admissible, even though it involved the interpretation of otherwise innocuous terms that had drug-related meanings within the context of the particular case. Contrary to...

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