People v. Williams

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County, rendered January 4, 1977, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree. On this appeal defendant seeks a reversal of his conviction upon assertions that the trial court erred in failing to suppress certain identification testimony of the arresting officer as being tainted by impermissible pretrial identification procedures, and that it had unduly restricted his counsel’s cross-examination of that officer during the suppression hearing. There is no proof to…