The hearing court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. Defendant was not denied his right to counsel at his investigatory lineup, since the police efforts to contact his attorney, consisting of calling the number left by the attorney twice and speaking to his office employee, who was herself unsuccessful in reaching the attorney, were reasonable under the circumstances (see People v Cole,
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