Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Diego Vega, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-12-06
Citations: 210 A.D.2d 41
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Diego Vega, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 210
Pages: 41–42

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Diego Vega, Appellant.
[619 NYS2d 567]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Clifford Scott, J.), rendered November 22, 1991, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persis tent violent felony offender, to a term of 6 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
Summary denial of defendant's motion to suppress identification testimony was proper, the People having made a sufficient showing, based on defendant's own statement to the police of having seen and spoken to the witness only hours before the crime, of a prior relationship between the two rendering the witness impervious ;to police suggestion (People v Rodriguez, 79 NY2d 445, 452). Defendant's motion to suppress tangible evidence was also properly denied without a hearing for failure to set forth facts relating to the alleged warrantless search of his home and concerning which he presumably had personal knowledge (see, People v Mendoza, 82 NY2d 415, 427), and his boilerplate allegations of warrants less search did not otherwise "as a matter of law support the ground alleged" (CPL 710.60 [3] [b]). Concur—Wallach, J. P., Kupferman, Ross, Asch and Rubin, JJ.