People v. Richard

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), rendered March 1, 1989, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress certain identification testimony.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying his request to compel the attendance of the complaining witness at the Wade hearing. The defendant does not have an absolute right…