People v. Purdie

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J.), rendered June 1, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree and criminal trespass in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony. The circumstances of the showup identification, made in close proximity to the time and place of the crime and as part of an unbroken chain of events, were not unduly suggestive (see…