People v. Williams

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard J. Fried, J.), rendered April 9, 1998, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of eight years to life, unanimously affirmed.

*75The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. The showup identification at issue was justified by its close spatial and temporal proximity to the crime, notwithstanding the fact that another witness had already identified defendant (People v Duuvon, 77 NY2d 541, 545 [1991]). The manner in which the…