People v. Phillips
Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Chetta, J.), rendered May 30, 1986, convicting him of robbery in the second degree (two counts), criminal possession of stolen property in the first degree, criminal mischief in the fourth degree and unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress identification testimony.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The lineup procedure employed was proper and not "so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification that [the defendant] was denied due process of law” (Stovall v Denno, 388 US 293, 302). The defendant’s argument that the lineup was rendered unnecessarily suggestive by the injuries to his face is without merit (see,
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