People v. Suraci

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Sherman, J.), rendered January 30, 1986, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A central issue at trial was the accuracy of the identification of the defendant by a witness who saw the defendant’s reflection in the side-view mirror of a van in which the defendant was sitting. After the jury returned its guilty verdict, one of the jurors revealed to the defense counsel that during deliberations he looked into the side-view…