People v Hamdam
2009 NY Slip Op 00403 [58 AD3d 752]
January 20, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, March 11, 2009


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

[*1]Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Laura Lieberman Cohen and Harold Ferguson ofcounsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Victor Barall, andSteven A. Mann of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feldman,J.), rendered September 15, 2005, convicting him of burglary in the second degree and robberyin the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to adeterminate term of imprisonment of 15 years on the burglary count and a concurrentindeterminate term of imprisonment of 3½ to 7 years on the robbery count. The appealbrings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant's omnibus motionwhich was to suppress identification testimony.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, byvacating the sentence imposed; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter isremitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for resentencing in accordance herewith.

Contrary to the defendant's contentions, the Supreme Court properly permitted a prosecutionwitness to testify regarding defense counsel's presence at the lineup observed by the robberyvictim and counsel's statements indicating that he was satisfied with the composition of thelineup (see People v Foulks, 143 AD2d 1038 [1988]).

The defendant's present contentions regarding suppression of evidence of the showupidentification made by the burglary victim are unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL470.05 [2]; [*2]People v Foster, 187 AD2d 401 [1992]).In any event, the hearing testimony supports the hearing court's determination that theidentification was sufficiently reliable to submit to the jury (see People v Marte, 52 AD3d 737 [2008]; People v Darnell,146 AD2d 583 [1989]; People v Blackman, 110 AD2d 596 [1985]). The evidence atthe hearing also shows an independent source for the burglary victim's in-court identification ofthe defendant (see People v Wilson,5 NY3d 778, 780 [2005]; People v Golliver, 132 AD2d 618 [1987]).

The defendant's trial attorney provided meaningful representation (see People vBenevento, 91 NY2d 708 [1998]; People v Baldi, 54 NY2d 137 [1981]).

While the defendant's contention that he was improperly adjudicated a second felonyoffender is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2]), we consider thematter in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction (see People v Fusillo, 94AD2d 802 [1983]). The sentencing court adjudicated the defendant a second felony offender(see Penal Law § 70.06) absent any indication of compliance with the proceduralrequirements of CPL 400.21, or any showing that the defendant was given notice and anopportunity to be heard (cf. People v Bouyea, 64 NY2d 1140 [1985]; People vAlston, 289 AD2d 339 [2001]). We therefore remit the matter to the Supreme Court, KingsCounty, for resentencing in accordance with the mandates of CPL 400.21. Rivera, J.P., Santucci,Carni and Dickerson, JJ., concur.


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