People v. Ford

On this appeal defendant contends that the denial of that branch of his motion which sought suppression of certain identification testimony was improper. A review of the record discloses that the showup occurred about one half hour after the robbery and about four blocks away from the scene of the crime. This was an appropriate procedure to secure a prompt and reliable identification of the perpetrator while the incident was vivid in the victim’s memory (People v Rivera, 108 AD2d 935; People v Acevedo, 102 AD2d 336, 339-340). In any event, there was an independent basis for the complainant’s…