Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael R. Ambrecht, J.), rendered January 7, 2004, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of three counts of rape in the third degree and three counts of sodomy in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.
During his cross-examination of the victim, defendant opened the door to evidence of defendant’s explanation to the victim as to why he had not attended her party (see People v Torre, 42 NY2d 1036 [1977]). The explanation, that he had been driving with friends and had been “stopped,” did not constitute evidence of an uncharged crime (see People v Flores, 210 AD2d 1 [1994], lv denied 84 NY2d 1031 [1995]). Moreover, the nature of the explanation was relevant to a credibility issue that defendant developed during cross-examination.
To the extent that a portion of an officer’s testimony concerning his investigation of the crime could be viewed as lay opinion on the victim’s credibility, we find the error to be harmless (see People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230 [1975]).
The challenged portions of the People’s summation consti