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The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Nelson SANCHEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County, (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), rendered October 17, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and also convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of a robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 4 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. The showup identification made about 15 minutes after the crime within a few blocks of the crime scene was not unduly suggestive (see People v. Duuvon, 77 N.Y.2d 541 [1991] ). The presence of three or four officers alongside the three unhandcuffed suspects was a justified security measure, and even if the victim heard a radio transmission stating that suspects fitting the description he had given had been stopped, a person of ordinary intelligence would have drawn that inference from the circumstances in any event (see People v. Gatling, 38 AD3d 239, 240 [2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 865 [2007] ).
We perceive no basis for granting defendant youthful offender treatment.
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