People v. Tyrell

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered May 3, 2000, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress identification testimony.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We agree with the hearing court that there was an independent basis for the in-court identification. During the course of the robbery in question, the complainant observed the defendant’s…