Citation Numbers: 210 A.D.2d 168, 620 N.Y.S.2d 957, 1994 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13065
Filed Date: 12/22/1994
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 10/31/2024
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Allen Alpert, J., at Wade hearing; Joan Carey, J., at plea and sentence), rendered September 11, 1990, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the third degree, and sentencing him to a prison term of 9 months, unanimously affirmed.
The challenged showup, which occurred in close proximity to the time and place of the crime while defendant was sitting handcuffed in the back of a police patrol car, was not unduly suggestive (see, People v Duuvon, 77 NY2d 541; People v Ford, 195 AD2d 298, lv denied 82 NY2d 805). A showup procedure such as was used here was justified in the interest of prompt