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People v. Gordon

New York Court of Appeals

Decided October 23, 1990PublishedCited by 50 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bellacosa, J.

This appeal from an Appellate Division order, affirming a conviction of criminal sale and possession of drugs, turns on the admissibility of a station house showup identification by an undercover police officer. The Court is unanimous that the undercover officer’s December 7, 1984 showup identification of defendant as a participant in a drug sale on November 27, 1984 is irredeemably suggestive and must be suppressed. It is significantly different from the confirmatory type of showup identification by a trained undercover police officer which was circumscribed…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. People v. ContesNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
  2. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. People v. GissendannerNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
  4. People v. AdamsNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
  5. People v. WhartonNew York Court of Appeals · 1989

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3Cited by50 opinions

  1. People v. DuuvonNew York Court of Appeals · 1991
  2. People v. RodriguezNew York Court of Appeals · 1992
  3. People v. BoyerNew York Court of Appeals · 2006
  4. People v. WaringAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
  5. People v. MatoNew York Court of Appeals · 1994

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