People v. Padgett

—Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), dated August 22, 1994, which granted the defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, the motion is denied, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for further proceedings.

The defendant was charged with the gunpoint robbery of the complainants’ hardware store. Although the perpetrator wore a mask during the commission of the crime, one complainant observed him remove his mask as he left the store, and they both followed him…