Opinion
02-10-2017
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Kimada DIXSON, Defendant–Appellant.
Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Rosemary Herbert of counsel), for appellant. Kimada Dixson, appellant pro se. Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Matthew B. White of counsel), for respondent.
Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Rosemary Herbert of counsel), for appellant.
Kimada Dixson, appellant pro se.
Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Matthew B. White of counsel), for respondent.
SWEENY, J.P., ACOSTA, MAZZARELLI, MANZANET–DANIELS, WEBBER, JJ.
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (James M. Kindler, J.), rendered June 3, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress the victim's identification of defendant in a six-person lineup. The taint of any prior unduly suggestive identification procedures, conducted more than two months earlier, was dissipated by the passage of time (see People v. Perez, 128 A.D.3d 465, 465, 10 N.Y.S.3d 9 [1st Dept.2015] ; People v. Mathis, 94 A.D.3d 428, 941 N.Y.S.2d 146 [1st Dept.2012], lv. denied 19 N.Y.3d 975, 950 N.Y.S.2d 358, 973 N.E.2d 768 [2012] ). The lineup fillers did not differ so much from defendant's appearance or the victim's description of the perpetrator as to single out defendant unfairly (see People v. Chipp, 75 N.Y.2d 327, 335, 553 N.Y.S.2d 72, 552 N.E.2d 608 [1990], cert. denied 498 U.S. 833, 111 S.Ct. 99, 112 L.Ed.2d 70 [1990] ; compare People v. Perkins, 28 N.Y.3d 432, 45 N.Y.S.3d 860, 68 N.E.3d 679 [2016] [lineup fillers lacked defendant's very noticeable distinctive hairstyle] ).
The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v. Danielson, 9 N.Y.3d 342, 348, 849 N.Y.S.2d 480, 880 N.E.2d 1 [2007] ). There is no basis for disturbing the jury's credibility determinations, including its evaluation of the victim's testimony that he was certain of the accuracy of his identification of defendant in the lineup but was unable to make an in-court identification almost two years after the incident because his memory had faded. The dangerous instrument element was established by the victim's testimony that defendant placed a large commercial fish hook to his abdomen and threatened to kill him (see People v. Crisp, 194 A.D.2d 465, 599 N.Y.S.2d 261 [1st Dept.1993], lv. denied 82 N.Y.3d 752, 603 N.Y.S.2d 994, 624 N.E.2d 180 [1993] ).
We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.We have considered the arguments raised in defendant's pro se supplemental brief and find them unavailing.