Commonwealth v. Gerrior

1. The judge could properly find that the array of twelve photographs from which the victim identified the defendant’s photograph was not suggestive, despite the fact that the other eleven photographs had been included in the two thousand or more photographs she had previously viewed and rejected. Compare Commonwealth v. Small, 10 Mass. App. Ct. 606, 608 (1980). Compare also Commonwealth v. LaPierre, 10 Mass. App. Ct. 641, 643-644 (1980). The police were not required to forgo a photographic identification procedure in favor of a lineup. Commonwealth v. Mattias, 8 Mass. App. Ct. 786, 789…