People v. Ruiz

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eduardo Padro, J., at hearing; Daniel P. FitzGerald, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered March 18, 2004, convicting defendant of grand larceny in the fourth degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony. The testifying officer had a sufficient recollection of the events to satisfy the People’s minimal burden of producing some proof of…