People v. Maher

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Fisher, J.), rendered June 24, 1993, convicting him. of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Beldock, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress identification evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

We find unpersuasive the defendant’s contention that the hearing court erred in refusing to suppress the identification evidence. The hearing…