People v. Nieves

The defendant’s robbery conviction was based solely upon the uncorroborated eyewitness testimony of the complainant, who identified the defendant on the street a year and three months after the crime occurred. The complainant specifically testified at trial that he recognized the defendant as an individual whom he had often seen on a particular street corner as he returned home from work. The defendant, who had held the same job for nearly a decade, testified that he would have been at work at the time the complainant claimed to regularly have seen him on the street corner. Moreover, the…