Opinion
September 29, 1997
Appeal from County Court, Rockland County (Nelson, J.).
Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.
Under Indictment No. 93-00316, the defendant was charged, inter alia, with two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. The court did not err when it denied, without a Wade hearing, the defendant's motion to suppress the identification testimony of the two undercover officers who purchased the cocaine. Each identified the defendant as the seller from a single photograph. Although a single photograph identification can be suggestive if too remote in time from an officer's face-to-face observation of a defendant, here, each officer made an identification within one-half hour of the sale as an integral part of proper police procedure ( see, People v Miles, 219 A.D.2d 685; People v. Montgomery, 213 A.D.2d 663, affd 88 N.Y.2d 926). Accordingly, the court, permissibly, summarily determined that the identifications were merely confirmatory ( see, People v. Wharton, 74 N.Y.2d 921).
The only allegation of error relating to Indictment No. 94-00026 was that while the transcript of the court reporter's minutes of the sentence proceedings indicated that the defendant was sentenced to an indeterminate term of three to six years imprisonment upon his conviction of assault in the second degree, the extract of the clerk's minutes of those proceedings set forth in the order of commitment stated that a sentence of three and one-half to seven years imprisonment had been imposed. The matter was remitted to the County Court to correct the discrepancy ( see, People v. Banks, 234 A.D.2d 311, supra). The County Court has complied and resettled the order of commitment to reflect that the sentence actually imposed was a term of three to six years imprisonment. The discrepancy having been resolved in the defendant's favor and there being no contention that a term of three to six years was excessive under the circumstances of this case, the judgment rendered under Indictment 94-00026 is affirmed.
Miller, J.P., Ritter, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.