People v. Pittman

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Dolan, J.), rendered September 20, 2000, convicting him of resisting arrest, 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 reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered, to be preceded by an independent source hearing.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620 [1983]), we…