Although showups are generally disfavored, testimony of an identification made at a showup need not be suppressed unless it is found, upon consideration of the totality of circumstances, that the confrontation "was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification that [the defendant] was denied due process of law." (Stovall v. Denno,
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