People v. Arthur

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Kahn, J.), rendered December 10, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and two counts of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Defendant did not establish standing to assert a violation of Payton v New York (445 US 573) and the court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s request to reopen the hearing in an attempt to do so. In any event, there was no Payton…