Opinion ID: 2004985
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Heading: Suppression of Pretrial Identification

Text: For his final point of appeal, Appellant argues that the trial court erred by denying his motion to suppress the pretrial identification of Appellant. Specifically, he argues that Carter's identification of him was a result of an unduly suggestive, police-orchestrated identification procedure. Nevertheless, we cannot examine Appellant's argument because it was not preserved for appellate review. This court has held that a challenge to an out-of-court photographic identification is not preserved for review where, despite challenging the photo identification prior to trial, the appellant failed to object to the victim's in-court identification. Lewis v. State, 354 Ark. 359, 123 S.W.3d 891 (2003). Furthermore, [t]o preserve a challenge to a pretrial photographic identification, we require a contemporaneous objection to in-court identification at trial. Id. at 363, 123 S.W.3d at 893. There, as here, the defendant made a motion to suppress the photo identification which was denied during a pretrial hearing. However, because Lewis did not object to the in-court identification at trial, this court found that the argument was procedurally barred. Similarly, in this case, Appellant did not object during the trial to Carter's testimony nor to Officer Pettit's testimony regarding the photo used for identification. Consequently, just as in Lewis , this point of appeal is procedurally barred. Lastly, because this argument is barred from review, Appellant's constitutional arguments regarding the identification procedure are moot and we decline to address them. See Lewis, 354 Ark. 359, 123 S.W.3d 891.