Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Meyer-son, J.), rendered February 20, 1985, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of those branches of the defendant’s omnibus motion which were to suppress inculpatory statements and showup identification testimony.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
On April 24, 1984, at approximately 8:45 p.m., the defendant and codefendant Frederick Miller forcibly took, at gunpoint, a radio from Luis Ortiz and two other persons standing in front of 233 Sands Street in Brooklyn. During the robbery, Ortiz rushed Miller, who then shot and killed Ortiz. Maurice Fitzgerald, who heard a shot emanate from the front of 233 Sands Street, observed the defendant, whom he called "Monse”, running from the crime scene with a radio on his shoulder. It is undisputed that the defendant’s "street name” is Monse. On April 26, the defendant was arrested while exiting his school and immediately transported by Detective Hickey to the police precinct. Approximately 20 or 30 minutes after arriving at the precinct, the defendant was advised of his Miranda rights. He waived his rights and confessed his participation in the robbery and felony murder of Ortiz. Prior to the commencement of this custodial interrogation, the defendant had been placed in the interrogation room with a police officer while Detective Hickey and other detectives from the Housing Authority prepared for the interrogation. After confessing his role, the
On the same date Fitzgerald identified the defendant at a showup conducted at the precinct. Prior to viewing the defendant through a one-way mirror, Fitzgerald furnished Detective Hickey with the defendant’s first and last name and informed the detective that he had known defendant from junior high school and from the neighborhood for at least the past couple of years.
The defendant’s contention, that the People failed, as a matter of law, to prove the voluntariness of his first confession to Detective Hickey on the ground that no officers testified as to what may or may not have been said or done to the defendant during the 20- to 30-minute interval after his arrival at the precinct and prior to being advised of his Miranda rights, is specious. While it is the People’s burden to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant’s statements were voluntarily made, "[t]his does not mean * * * that the People are mandated to produce all police officers who had contact with the defendant from arrest to the time that the challenged statements were elicited” (People v Witherspoon,
The denial of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress Fitzgerald’s identification of the defendant as the man he saw running with a radio from the scene of the crime was correct. The procedure used in this case was more in the nature of a confirmation rather than an identification in view of the fact that Fitzgerald knew the defendant by sight, and by both his street name and surname (see, People v Fleming,
Lastly, the defendant contends that his inculpatory statements and Fitzgerald’s identification testimony should be suppressed as the tainted fruit of an arrest not predicated upon probable cause. Inasmuch as the defendant never requested a Dunaway hearing nor objected at the combined Huntley-Wade hearing to the admission of this evidence on the ground the arrest was illegal, and, thus, effectively deprived the People of a fair opportunity to present their proof to rebut such a claim, the issue has not been preserved for appellate review (see, People v Miguel,
