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THE IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURE WHICH USED DEFENDANT’S ARREST PHOTOGRAPH WAS UNDULY SUGGESTIVE REQUIRING SUPPRESSION OF THE RELATED IDENTIFICATIONS (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing the burglary conviction and ordering a new trial on that count, determined the identification procedure, using an arrest photograph of the defendant, was unduly suggestive and the related identifications should have been suppressed:

Although the complainant’s identification of a Facebook photograph was not the product of a police-arranged identification procedure, the complainant’s identifications of the defendant from a single arrest photograph were the result of unduly suggestive identification procedures, and those identifications should have been suppressed … . Thus, the defendant is entitled to a new trial on the count of burglary in the second degree, to be preceded by a hearing to determine whether an independent source exists for the complainant’s identification of the defendant … . People v Wheeler, 2025 NY Slip Op 03747, Second Dept 6-18-25

Practice Point: Here the complainant’s identifications of the defendant from an arrest photograph should have been suppressed. The procedure was unduly suggestive.​

 

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