Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. James Bellinger, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-09-24
Citations: 253 A.D.2d 701
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v James Bellinger, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 253
Pages: 701–701

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v James Bellinger, Appellant.
[680 NYS2d 191]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.), rendered May 24, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant's motion to suppress identification testimony was properly denied. The record supports the hearing court's finding that the accidental station house viewing of defendant by one of the victims resulted from the victim's failure to follow police instructions and was not a suggestive police-arranged identification procedure (see, People v Clark, 85 NY2d 886, 889; People v Nimmons, 177 AD2d 444, lv denied 79 NY2d 922).
According due deference to the court's assessment of the defense attorney's proffered explanation for the peremptory challenge that was disallowed, we find that the court properly concluded that the explanation was pretextual (People v Hernandez, 75 NY2d 350, 356, affd 500 US 352). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Nardelli, Mazzarelli, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.