Court Opinion

ID: 5806074
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:37:32.719373+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:43.240365
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Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered January 9, 1975, convicting the defendant upon a jury verdict of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him as a second felony offender to a term of from 4½ to 9 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the indictment dismissed. This matter is foreclosed by the opinion of this court in the appeal of the appellant’s codefendant, People v Marrero (51 AD2d 513), in which this court acknowledged the impropriety of the show-up. Whereas in that case it was concluded that there was sufficient independent basis to support the in-court identification of the defendant Marrero, we find that in this case the victim was not in a position to observe this defendant and, therefore, the show-up being improper, the in-court identification was thereby tainted (see Stovall v Denno, 388 US 293, 301-302), and cannot be otherwise resurrected. (United States v Wade, 388 US 218.) Concur—Stevens, P. J., Kupferman, Lupiano, Capozzoli and Lane, JJ.