People v. King

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.), rendered December 7, 1990, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s claim that he was deprived of a fair trial as a result of the court’s refusal to conduct an "independent source” hearing as to the identification testimony elicited from one of the People’s eyewitnesses. Although the court initially ruled that the witness’s identification testimony would be admissible…