Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1984

People v. Parente

People v. Parente
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided September 24, 1984
104 A.D.2d 667; 480 N.Y.S.2d 40; 1984 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 20079
People v. Parente

Opinion of the Court

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Groh, J.), rendered November 10,1982, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

The People proved defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and excluded to a moral certainty every reasonable hypothesis other than guilt. The photograph of defendant provided to the police by the complainant was not properly the subject of a suppression motion because its production and the identification were not the result of a police-initiated identification procedure, but rather were the fruits of the independent activities of private citizens (People v Logan, 25 NY2d 184, 194; see, also, People v Laguer, 58 AD2d 610). In any event, there was more than an adequate independent basis upon which the eyewitness made the lineup identification. Mollen, P. J., Mangano, O’Connor and Lawrence, JJ., concur.

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