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People v. Aponte

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 31, 1988
140 A.D.2d 702 (N.Y. App. Div. 1988)

Opinion

May 31, 1988

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kramer, J.).


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the identification testimony at the trial should have been suppressed because the CPL 710.30 notice served by the People did not provide notice of all the identification testimony that the People intended to use at the trial (see, CPL 710.30). However, the defendant did not raise the issue at the Wade hearing, when the undercover officer fully testified with respect to the identification testimony which was later received in evidence at the trial, and the defendant failed to thereafter assert any protest at the trial based on the inadequacy of the statutory notice. Having failed to present this objection at a time when corrective action was possible, the defendant has not preserved the matter for our review (People v Rivera, 53 N.Y.2d 1005; People v Clark, 41 N.Y.2d 612, 615-616, cert denied 434 U.S. 864). In any event, the street viewings involved were not subject to CPL 710.30 notice requirements since they were not police-arranged identification procedures (see, People v Gissendanner, 48 N.Y.2d 543, 552).

Our review of the uncontradicted Wade testimony establishes that after looking for the defendant for several months after the "buy", the undercover officer saw the defendant in the street and radioed his backup team, directing them to arrest the man he described to them. The undercover officer then watched from a distance as the defendant was arrested. Therefore, the station house viewing of the defendant by the undercover officer was not for the purpose of identification but was confirmatory in nature (see, People v Morales, 37 N.Y.2d 262, 271, 272).

Under the circumstances, we conclude that the hearing court's finding that there was no suggestive or impermissible conduct by the police is supported by the record and that the undercover officer's testimony was proper.

We find that the defendant's remaining contentions are either unpreserved for appellate review or without merit. Bracken, J.P., Brown, Weinstein and Rubin, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Aponte

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 31, 1988
140 A.D.2d 702 (N.Y. App. Div. 1988)
Case details for

People v. Aponte

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSE APONTE, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: May 31, 1988

Citations

140 A.D.2d 702 (N.Y. App. Div. 1988)

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