People v. Kearse

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Broomer, J.), rendered August 8, 1986, 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 identification testimony.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Since both the complainant and the eyewitness were familiar with the appellant prior to the occurrence of the instant crime, the showup was merely confirmatory (see, People v Ingram, 110 AD2d 852).

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