The Appellate Division's reversal was apparently predicated on a misreading of section 393-b of the Code of Criminal Procedure (applicable in the 1970 trial in this case). That court held that it was reversible error, after the police officer had made an in-court identification of the defendant, to permit him while still on direct examination to testify to his prior recognition of the defendant at the pretrial...
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