People v. Straker

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Daniel Sullivan, J.), rendered April 22, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7½ to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly admitted testimony that the complainant had previously viewed a photographic array, and properly allowed the prosecution to introduce the fact that a photo array had taken place, without mentioning that defendant had been identified. We conclude that…