People v. Espinal

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Potoker, J.), rendered April 21, 1983, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (four counts), robbery in the second degree (three counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Although the defendant was the subject of two suggestive pretrial identification procedures, the trial court properly permitted the complainants to identify the defendant at trial as there were clearly independent bases therefor.…