Commonwealth v. Pleas, 49 Mass.App.Ct. 321, 328-329 (2000).
An officer was permitted to testify to the identity of an individual appearing in admitted videotaped surveillance images because we held that the officer's " testimony could be helpful to the jurors, who, of course, still had before them the videotape and the still prints made from it." Pleas and Vitello do not stand for the proposition that a lay witness can properly testify to the identity of individuals in a videotape recording that is not accessible by the jury.
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