| People v Brown |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 04102 [50 AD3d 1154] |
| April 29, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| The People of the State of New York,Respondent, v Michael J. Brown, Appellant. |
—[*1] Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Sharon Y.Brodt, and William H. Branigan of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Roman,J.), rendered July 13, 2005, convicting him of sodomy in the first degree (two counts), assault inthe second degree (two counts), and endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, andimposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
In 1993 the then nine-year-old complainant was sexually assaulted on the roof of anapartment building by an assailant whom she did not know. The complainant was later treated atthe hospital and a sexual assault evidence kit was prepared. The DNA profile created in 2002from the sexual assault evidence kit was matched to a DNA profile taken from the defendant and,in 2003 an indictment charging, inter alia, sodomy in the first degree (two counts) and assault inthe second degree (two counts) was filed against the defendant.
At trial, the Supreme Court admitted into evidence, as a business record, the file of the Officeof the Chief Medical Examiner (hereinafter OCME), which included DNA reports produced fromthe sexual assault evidence kit and oral swabs taken from the defendant. These exhibits wereadmitted through the testimony of an OCME forensic biologist, who testified that the data uponwhich she based her opinions was generated by employees of both the OCME and a privatelaboratory that subcontracted with the OCME, and that she had confirmed the accuracy of [*2]the private laboratory's finding. Contrary to the defendant'scontention, the DNA evidence was properly admitted under the business record exception to thehearsay rule (see CPLR 4518 [a]; People v Rawlins, 10 NY3d 136, 158-160 [2008]; People vCratsley, 86 NY2d 81, 90-91 [1995]; People v Grogan, 28 AD3d 579, 581 [2006]; People v Baylor, 25 AD3d 562[2006]; cf. People v Bones, 17AD3d 689, 690 [2005]) and did not violate his Sixth Amendment right to confront hisaccusers (see Crawford v Washington, 541 US 36 [2004]).
Moreover, the Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the defendant's omnibus motionwhich was to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the prosecution was barred by thefive-year statute of limitations pursuant to CPL 30.10 (2) (b). Although the indictment was filedin July 2003, nearly 10 years after the incident, the defendant's whereabouts were continuouslyunknown and continuously unascertainable by the exercise of reasonable diligence until thedefendant's DNA profile from the sexual assault evidence kit was matched to DNA evidencetaken from the defendant pursuant to a subsequent incarceration (see CPL 30.10 [4] [a][ii]; People v Seda, 93 NY2d 307, 311 [1999]; People v Grogan, 28 AD3d 579, 580-581 [2006]; People v Lloyd, 23 AD3d 296, 297[2005]; People v Harrison, 22 AD3d236 [2005]). Fisher, J.P., Lifson, Covello and McCarthy, JJ., concur. [See 9 Misc 3d420 (2005).]