PEOPLE v. DUUVON


77 N.Y.2d 541 (1991)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Charles Duuvon, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 2, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Joshua Rosenkranz for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Patricia Curran and Norman Barclay of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges KAYE and ALEXANDER concur with Judge BELLACOSA; Judge TITONE concurs in result in a separate opinion in which Judges SIMONS and HANCOCK, JR., concur.


BELLACOSA, J.

Defendant was convicted of twice robbing the same dry cleaning store in Manhattan. The judgment, based on a jury verdict, was affirmed by the Appellate Division and a Judge of this Court granted leave to appeal. The issue now before us is the validity of a showup identification of defendant made by an employee-victim-witness at the robbery scene a few minutes after the robbery. This challenged showup...

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