| People v Fields |
| 2009 NY Slip Op 07438 [66 AD3d 799] |
| October 13, 2009 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v ChrisFields, Appellant. |
—[*1] Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, JohnnetteTraill, and Suzanne H. Sullivan of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.),rendered September 15, 2005, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in thethird degree (two counts), after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up forreview the denial, after a hearing (Katz, J.), of that branch of the defendant's omnibus motionwhich was to suppress identification testimony.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that the photographic identification procedure was undulysuggestive is unpreserved for appellate review, since he failed at the Wade hearing(see United States v Wade, 388 US 218 [1967]) to raise the specific grounds upon whichhe now challenges the procedure (see CPL 470.05 [2]; People v Lago, 60 AD3d 784,784-785 [2009]). In any event, the evidence adduced at the hearing established that the pretrialidentification procedure was not unduly suggestive. The volume of photographs viewed by theundercover officer militates against the presence of suggestiveness (see People v Mason,138 AD2d 411, 412 [1988]). As the photographic identification procedure was not undulysuggestive, the People were not required to establish an independent source for the in-courtidentification of the defendant (seePeople v Mathis, 55 AD3d 628 [2008]).
The defendant's contention that the record developed at the Wade hearingestablished that his arrest was made without probable cause is unpreserved for appellate review(see CPL 470.05 [2]). In any event, the defendant failed to seek a Dunawayhearing (see Dunaway v New York, 442 US 200 [1979]), and this Court may notrely upon the record of the Wade hearing to decide the merits of an unlitigated groundfor suppression (see People v Cabrera,61 AD3d 884 [2009]).
The defendant's contentions raised in point three of his brief are unpreserved for appellatereview and, in any event, are without merit. The defendant's contentions raised in points five andsix of his brief are without merit. Prudenti, P.J., Miller, Chambers and Roman, JJ., concur.[See 8 Misc 3d 1009(A), 2005 NY Slip Op 51000(U).]