People v. Gonzalez

Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum, J.), dated March 29, 2000, which granted that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress identification testimony.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress identification testimony is denied, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for further proceedings.

The hearing court erred in its determination that the People failed to meet their initial burden of establishing the reasonableness of the…