People v. Pride

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered September 4, 2012, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Mangano, Jr., J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress in-court identification evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered, to be preceded by a hearing to determine whether an independent source for the identification exists.

The…