Court Opinion

ID: 9713775
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:22:06.302726+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:20.482810
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ROBERTS, Justice
(concurring).
Because the record reveals that no error was committed by the trial court, I concur in the result reached by the Court.
At trial, the only identification evidence elicited by the Commonwealth was the witness’s in-court identification of . appellant. Defense counsel, however, in an attempt to impeach the witness’s identification, asked the witness about the suggestive out-of-court confrontation. Since the witness testified about the out-of-court confrontation in response to defense questions, appellant may not now be heard to complain.
Moreover, the record supports the trial court’s determination that the Commonwealth had established by “clear and convincing evidence that the in-court identification was based upon observations of the suspect other than [the suggestive confrontation.]” United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218, 240, 87 S.Ct. 1926, 1939, 18 L.Ed.2d 1149 (1967). Therefore, the trial court correctly permitted the in-court identification.