The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress a lineup identification. Defendant claims that the otherwise fair lineup was tainted by the victim's prior exposure to his photograph in a photo array, from which the victim failed to make any identification. However, a witness's failure to identify a defendant in an initial photo array does not necessarily mean a subsequent lineup identification was tainted (see People v Chamberlain,
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