People v. Cox

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J., at suppression hearing and at trial with a jury), rendered on or about January 7, 1988, convicting defendant of robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 4 to 8 years and 1 Vi to 3 years, is unanimously affirmed.

The principal issue on appeal is whether the precinct house identification procedure arranged by the police was a suggestive showup or an acceptable confirmation of an earlier identification by the complaining witness. We…