People v. Torres
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: We reject the contention of defendant that the evidence of the showup identification should have been suppressed. Defendant was identified by the victim as similar in height to and wearing the same clothing as the masked perpetrator of a robbery within 15 minutes of the commission of that crime and one-quarter mile from the crime scene. Although defendant was handcuffed when identified, given the proximity of the identification procedure to the time and place of the crime, " 'there was no constitutional infirmity’ the showup was "within the…
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