Opinion

People v. Brown

  • 140 A.D.2d 363
  • 527 N.Y.S.2d 850
  • 1988 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4644
Court
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Filed
May 2, 1988
Status
Published
Cited by
4 cases
Authority
More cited than 99.0%

The opinion

Assigned appellate counsel filed an Anders/Saunders brief (see, Anders v California, 386 US 738 , supra; People v Saunders, 52 AD2d 833 ), claiming that the appeal was frivolous. Based upon our independent review of the record, appealable issues exist as to whether the display of a single photograph of the defendant to the complainant Theresa W. was impermissibly suggestive; if so, whether the photographic identification procedure tainted the complainant’s subsequent identification *364 at a pretrial lineup; and whether there was an independent basis for her in-court identification of the defendant. Since nonfrivolous issues can be identified in the record, we must assign new counsel and reconsider the appeal de novo (see, People v Casiano, 67 NY2d 906 ; People v Vasquez, 70 NY2d 1 , rearg denied 70 NY2d 748 ). Mangano, J. P., Kunzeman, Rubin, Hooper and Harwood, JJ., concur.

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