Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We reject the defendant's contention that a witness's out-of-court identification of him should have been suppressed since it was made under unduly suggestive circumstances. We initially observe that the pretrial encounter was not a "police-arranged confrontation * * * between [the] defendant and an eyewitness * * * for the purpose of establishing the identity of the criminal actor" (People v Gissendanner,
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