The victim's out-of-court identification of respondent, given as evidence in chief pursuant to Family Court Act § 343.3, should have been the subject of a Wade hearing, since it took place while the victim and police were canvassing the crime area, and the presentment agency did not establish, as a matter of law, that the identification was free from the risk of police suggestion (People v Dixon,
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