People v. Mendoza

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Mangano, Jr., J.), rendered November 30, 2004, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the police officer’s testimony that he conducted a “witness identification” and arrested the defendant after asking the complainant if “that was him” did not constitute impermissible bolstering of the complainant’s identification testimony because it was offered for the relevant purpose of establishing…