Opinion ID: 1775659
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Heading: did the trial court err in refusing to suppress tracy pope's in-court identification of cole?

Text: At trial Cole moved to suppress an in-COURT IDENTIFICATION BY Tracy Pope, who had seen him at Midway Grocery the morning of the crime. He claimed that the in-court identification was the product of an impermissibly suggestive photographic show-up, in which Pope selected Cole's photograph after seeing him on television. At the suppression hearing, Tracy Pope testified that although she had seen a television broadcast showing Cole, she had seen only Cole's back as he entered a car. She further testified that seeing the film on television did not help her to identify him, and that the police had not suggested to her which photograph she should pick. Because the record contains no indication that the photographic show-up was impermissibly suggestive, we do not reach the issue whether the in-court identification was a product of the out-of-court photographic show-up. Arteigapiloto v. State, 496 So.2d 681 (Miss. 1986); Hanner v. State, 465 So.2d 306 (Miss. 1985). The trial court did not err in denying Cole's motion to suppress.