People v. Matthews

*1364Initially, defendant argues that County Court erred as a matter of law in denying his motion, after a Wade hearing, to suppress the Cl’s identification of him on the ground that the pretrial identification procedure used by police, a photo array, was unduly suggestive. Upon review of the photo array and suppression testimony, we conclude that the People met their “initial burden of going forward to establish the reasonableness of the police conduct and the lack of any undue suggestiveness in [the] pretrial identification procedure” (People v Chipp, 75 NY2d 327, 335 [1990], cert denied 498 US…