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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RADAMES ACOSTA, Appellant.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The People "have an affirmative obligation to preserve all discoverable evidence within their possession" ( People v James, 93 NY2d 620, 644; see People v Hernandez, 285 AD2d 559). Here, when a surveillance videotape was destroyed, it had not been "gathered by the prosecution or its agent" ( People v Kelly, 62 NY2d 516, 520; see People v James, 93 NY2d at 644), and there is no indication that the People otherwise had the videotape "within their possession and control" ( People v O'Brien, 270 AD2d 433, 434). Accordingly, the defendant was not entitled to an adverse inference charge regarding the videotape ( see People v Tutt, 305 AD2d 987).

That branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence was properly denied ( see People v Ruppert, 42 AD3d 817, 817-818; People v Green, 41 AD3d 162, 162-163).

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PEOPLE v. RADAMES ACOSTA
(Jun 22, 2010)