People v. Quinones

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J., at hearing; Felice Shea, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered April 3, 1998, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The suppression motion was properly denied. The court properly found that the showup identification three weeks after the undercover officer’s final meeting with defendant in this ongoing investigation was confirmatory. There was no risk of misidentification since the…