People v. Wade
Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Heller, J.), rendered September 18, 1984, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, 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 a statement made by him to law enforcement authorities.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The alleged inadequacy of the trial court’s charge as to identification is similarly unpreserved, as defense counsel neither requested the instruction now claimed to have been erroneously omitted nor excepted to the charge as issued (see, CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Bronson, 127 AD2d 776). In any event, since the question of the defendant’s guilt turned largely on the credibility of the People’s witnesses who knew the defendant, and not upon the nature and quality of their observations of the defendant during the commission of the crime, a "Daniels-type” charge (People v Daniels, 88 AD2d 392) was unwarranted (see, People v Blake, 124 AD2d 666).
Contrary to the defendant’s contention, a criminal defendant may be convicted of both felony murder and intentional murder for killing a single person (People v Jackson, 20 NY2d 440, 451, cert denied 391 US 928; People v Leonti, 18 NY2d 384, 391-392).
We have examined the defendant’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Mollen, P. J., Bracken, Sullivan and Harwood, JJ., concur.
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