People v. Skinner

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Murray Mogel, J.), entered on or *351about March 22, 1994, which granted defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony, unanimously affirmed.

While the police are permitted to rely on the direction of their fellow officers to make an arrest, they cannot be considered to have relied on information possessed by each other without the guidance of any communication of either the information itself or a direction to arrest having been imparted and received (People v Mitchell, 185 AD2d 163, 164, appeal dismissed 81 NY2d 819). Here, the testimony at the…