People v. Zienkowicz
Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Katz, J.), rendered April 9, 1993, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, 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 identification testimony.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant argues that the hearing court should have suppressed the complainant’s testimony concerning the lineup and her in-court identification because the hearing testimony of the police officer who established the legality of the arrest
The defendant failed to preserve for appellate review his objection to the prosecutor’s opening statement (CPL 470.05 [2]). In any event, absent bad faith or undue prejudice, the prosecutor’s failure to prove every statement in his or her opening will not result in a jury’s verdict being reversed (see, People v De Tore, 34 NY2d 199, 207, cert denied sub nom. Wedra v New York, 419 US 1025).
Finally, the defendant argues that reversal is warranted due to the admission of certain hearsay testimony during trial. However, the court’s prompt curative instruction vitiated any prejudice to the defendant (see, People v Baez, 208 AD2d 638). Accordingly, the court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant’s request for a mistrial (see generally, People v Ortiz, 54 NY2d 288). O’Brien, J. P., Ritter, Santucci and Friedmann, JJ., concur.
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