13 Md. App. 394 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2009
20 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Desist v. United States · Bates v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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““We therefore conclude that under the principles enunciated in Stovall and followed in Bates, Billinger, and Spencer , the confrontation of the suspect by the victim at the scene of the crime within 30 minutes of the occurrence under the totality of the circumstances in this case was not unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification. In so holding we are not unmindful of the special emphasis which the appellant places on the circumstance that at the time he was identified, he was the sole occupant of a police cruiser and was identified by the victim looking at him through the vehicle’s window. He contends that the victim’s viewing of him under these circumstances was in itself unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to misidentification. We disagree. While a person who is in police custody and is singly exhibited to an eyewitness to the crime undoubtedly creates a suggestive situation, the fact that his police custody involves being placed in a patrol wagon as the sole occupant thereof rather than simply being in the physical presence of a police officer would seem to make little if any difference so far as the extent of the suggestiveness is concerned. In both situations the suspect is alone in police custody and the police are in effect saying to the witness, ‘We have apprehended this person because we believe he may possibly be the one who committed the crime. Look at him and tell us whether you can identify him as the culprit.’ Furthermore, in Bat”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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