Court Opinion

ID: 6020812
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 11:48:38.54027+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:50:46.359735
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—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant contends that Supreme Court erred in denying his suppression motion based upon an impermissibly suggestive photo array. We disagree. The photo array contains photographs of men with similar physical features (see, People v Burns, 186 AD2d 1015, 1016, lv denied 81 NY2d 837; see also, People v Gray, 186 AD2d 1058, lv denied 81 NY2d 840). Moreover, there is no “characteristic of one picture [that] draws the viewer’s attention to that picture, indicating that the police [were urging] a particular selection” (People v Emmons, 123 AD2d 475, 476, lv denied 69 NY2d 827; see, People v Rogers [appeal No. 1], 245 AD2d 1041 [decided herewith]).
We reject defendant’s contention that the comment, “Oh, yeah, that’s him”, by the victim’s boyfriend after the victim had viewed the photo array and identified defendant improperly tainted the victim’s subsequent lineup identification of defendant (see generally, People v Rodriguez, 64 NY2d 738; People v Simmonds, 182 AD2d 650, lv denied 80 NY2d 910). We note that the victim knew defendant and that the victim’s boyfriend was not present during the rape. In any event, the lineup identification of defendant by the victim two months after she identified him in the photo array was sufficiently attenuated in time to nullify any possible taint (see, People v Smith, 140 AD2d 647, lv denied 72 NY2d 961; see also, People v Lee, 207 AD2d 953, 954, lv denied 85 NY2d 864; People v Thomas, 161 AD2d 543, lv denied 76 NY2d 866).
We have reviewed defendant’s remaining contentions and conclude that they are without merit. (Appeal from Judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County, Wolfgang, J.—Rape, 1st Degree.) Present—Denman, P. J., Lawton, Wisner, Balio and Boehm, JJ.