People v. Dixon

*220OPINION OF THE COURT

Titone, J.

Defendant was identified as a mugger during a canvassing of the crime scene undertaken by the police and the victim in a patrol car for purposes of identifying the perpetrators. The question we must decide is whether the courts below properly concluded that the allegedly spontaneous nature of an identification rendered a Wade hearing regarding the procedure unnecessary. We conclude that the suppression court’s summary denial of defendant’s motion for a Wade hearing was improper, since the canvassing was a police-spansored procedure conducted for the purpose of…