People v. Boone

251 A.D.2d 423, 674 N.Y.S.2d 121, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6563

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: June 8, 1998
• Status: Published

Opinion

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lott, J.), rendered November 26, 1996, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, attempted robbery in the first degree, assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third 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 contends that he was identified in an unduly-suggestive identification procedure in which only he exhibited a prominent facial scar. We disagree. While it is true that the defendant alone had a facial scar, from the testimony and photographic evidence concerning the lineup, it appears that the defendant was positioned in such a manner that his scar was not visible and that it played no part in the resulting identification (see, People v Thomas, 223 AD2d 610; People v Rosado, 222 AD2d 617; People v Neptune, 193 AD2d 703; People v Williams, 118 AD2d 610). We further note that the defendant was also identified at trial by two other witnesses, neither of whom observed the lineup see, People v Medina, 208 AD2d 771; People v Jackson, 167 AD2d 420).

We have reviewed the defendant’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Miller, J. P., O’Brien, Pizzuto and Friedmann, JJ., concur.