People v. Thomas

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J.), rendered October 20, 1988, convicting defendant after jury trial of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of 18 years to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant argues that the lineup conducted at the precinct house was suggestive, on the ground that the complainant *163testified that he was told by the police officer conducting the hearing that the person whose photograph he had selected from a photographic array would be in that lineup. Although the suppression court credited the police…