Legal Opinion

People v. Stanley

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 3, 2009PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress identification testimony. After identifying defendant at an otherwise fair lineup, a witness told a detective that defendant *423was wearing clothing taken during the crime. The witness had never given a description of the assailant that included clothing, or described the clothing that had been taken, and when the police arrested defendant more than a week after the crime they were unaware that the clothes he was wearing had any significance. Accordingly, we conclude that the lineup was not unduly suggestive (see People v Carroll, 303 AD2d…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. CrimminsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
  2. Jehan Abdur Raheem, F/k/a John Whitaker v. Walter R. Kelly, Superintendent of Attica Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
  3. People v. CarrollAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. People v. BulginNew York Supreme Court · 2010

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