Opinion · Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
People v. Benjamin
155 A.D.2d 375
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Date
- 1989-11-28
- Topic
- litigation
— Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Franklin Weissberg, J.), rendered May 31, 1988, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of one count each of robbery in the first and second degrees, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentenced him to concurrent prison terms of 9 to 18 years, 4 to 8 years (two terms) and 3 to 6 years, is unanimously affirmed. There is no constitutional requirement that a defense-requested in-court lineup be conducted, as such request is addressed to the sound discretion of the court. (Sims v Sullivan, 867 F2d 142, 145 [2d Cir 1989]; People v Pearce, 48 NY2d 897 [1979]; People v Grady, 133 Misc 2d 211, 227 [Sup Ct, Bronx County 1986].) We find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s request to preclude the witness from making an in-court identification while defendant was seated at defense counsel’s table or, in the alternative, to conduct an in-court identification while he sat among a group of people in the audience. The reliability of the complaining witness’s *376identification testimony concerning defendant was never sufficiently cast into doubt. The witness’s out-of-court identification was spontaneous and in no way tainted by police action.
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— Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Franklin Weissberg, J.), rendered May 31, 1988, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of one count each of robbery in the first and second degrees, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentenced him to concurrent prison terms of 9 to 18 years, 4 to 8 years (two terms) and 3 to 6 years, is unanimously affirmed.
There is no constitutional requirement that a defense-requested in-court lineup be conducted, as such request is addressed to the sound discretion of the court. (Sims v Sullivan, 867 F2d 142, 145 [2d Cir 1989]; People v Pearce, 48 NY2d 897 [1979]; People v Grady, 133 Misc 2d 211, 227 [Sup Ct, Bronx County 1986].)
We find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s request to preclude the witness from making an in-court identification while defendant was seated at defense counsel’s table or, in the alternative, to conduct an in-court identification while he sat among a group of people in the audience. The reliability of the complaining witness’s