People v. Tas

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The orders of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The trial court was correct in denying defendants’ motion to preclude evidence relating to the victim’s identification of the defendants as his assailants on the ground that the People had failed to give notice to defense counsel prior to its use. (See CPL 710.30.) As the Appellate Division noted, the victim and the defendants were inmates in the same tier of cells for a period prior to the attack of at least one month and, although the victim may not have known their particular names, he was familiar with…