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People v. Christie

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 23, 2005
18 A.D.3d 770 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)

Opinion

2002-07164.

May 23, 2005.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gary, J.), rendered August 2, 2002, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Douglass, J.), of that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress identification testimony.

Before: Adams, J.P., Krausman, Rivera and Fisher, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that it was reversible error for the hearing court to deny that branch of his omnibus motion which was to suppress identification testimony. Any error in the admission of the testimony regarding the showup that followed the defendant's brief detention was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt in light of the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt, which included the in-court identification of the defendant by two eyewitnesses ( see People v. Harris, 80 NY2d 796, 798; People v. Owens, 74 NY2d 677, 678; People v. Dell, 11 AD3d 631, 632, lv denied 4 NY3d 762).


Summaries of

People v. Christie

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 23, 2005
18 A.D.3d 770 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)
Case details for

People v. Christie

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. WILBERT CHRISTIE…

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

Date published: May 23, 2005

Citations

18 A.D.3d 770 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)
794 N.Y.S.2d 911

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