51 Ala. App. 307 - McCay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
July 1988
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Gilbert v. California · Kirby v. Illinois · Coleman v. Alabama · Foster v. California
Most-quoted passages
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““Hence, the only question with respect to the identification was whether or not the totality of circumstances would require as a matter of law that the defendant go free. “We do not think that this is a proper case for the application of so drastic a penalty upon the prosecution. Here the defendant was in varying degrees identified by more than one witness. Some were able to give reasonably good details, others were not. McCay’s alibi testimony was quite threadbare.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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