Opinion · New York Court of Appeals
People v. Arroyo
77 N.Y.2d 947
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- New York Court of Appeals
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Date
- 1991-04-25
- Topic
- litigation
How later courts describe this case
- one who knowingly supplies potentially lethal substances to victim is a proximate cause of victim’s death as victim’s self-administering substance was reasonably foreseeable
- defendant who injected victim with two doses of cocaine still “caused” victim’s death even though she did not die until she had injected herself with additional doses
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OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
While defendant now urges that the trial court committed reversible error in precluding him from calling his mother as a witness to corroborate certain details of his account of the night of the robbery, his offer of proof was insufficient to alert the trial court to the relevance of the testimony. For that reason, the trial court’s exclusion of the witness was not reversible error. Defendant’s remaining arguments, to the extent preserved, are without merit.
*949 Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa concur.
Order affirmed in a memorandum.