People v. Ramos CA2/7

DISCUSSION

1. Detective Gonzalez’s identification of Ramos in Surveillance Video a. Factual background The convenience store manager showed Long Beach Detective Fermin Gonzalez videos recorded by the store’s interior and exterior surveillance cameras showing Ramos and his companion inside the store. The manager told Gonzalez she was unable to make him a copy of the video at the time. Gonzalez subsequently secured a copy of the video recorded by the exterior camera. Gonzalez later learned the videos from all the cameras were corrupted and could not be viewed. Prior to trial, defense counsel sought to exclude Detective Gonzalez’s testimony of the contents of the damaged videos on various statutory grounds. He also argued the

A recording of Coley’s telephone call with the police emergency officer was played for the jury.

3 admission of the detective’s testimony would violate Ramos’s Sixth Amendment right to confrontation. The trial court denied the motion. At trial, Detective Gonzalez testified the video from the interior surveillance camera showed a Hispanic man and a black man enter the store and remove items from the beverage cooler. Olivares motioned to the men, and the…