People v. Santiago

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Kleiman, J., at suppression hearing; Joan Sudolnik, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered October 18, 1994, convicting defendant of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony was properly denied. Defendant argues, for the first time on appeal, that the prompt on-the-scene showup should have been suppressed because the independent existence of probable cause to arrest eliminated the…