People v. Reed

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kramer, J.), rendered December 7, 1988, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (eight counts) and grand larceny in the fourth 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.

An identification procedure violates due process only if it is conducted in such a manner that there is " ’a very substantial…