People v. Hunt

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered June 3, 1975 (the date on the clerk’s extract is August 5, 1975), convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. The showups conducted at the victim’s home and at the Criminal Court hearing were unnecessary and therefore impermissible (see Stovall v Denno, 388 US 293). The People have so conceded. However, the independent observations of the witnesses, based upon their recollections of the…