People v. Perez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uviller, J., at suppression hearing; Edward J. McLaughlin, J., at jury trial and sentencing), rendered September 17, 2008, convicting defendant of robbery in the first degree (two counts) and robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it denied defendant’s application to present expert testimony on eyewitness identification (see People v Abney, 13 NY3d 251, 266 [2009]). The case did not turn on the…