Craig v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Given the absence of any official action contributing to the likelihood of misiden-tification in this case [from seeing the defendant’s photo in .a newspaper article about his arrest], the constitutional sanction of inadmissibility should not be ap plied, regardless of the extent to which any witness’s in-court identification might have been rendered less reliable by prior exposure to the newspaper photograph. Of course, witnesses who viewed it might have been inclined to identify appellant from the photo and not from a clear recollection of the live events seen by them several days earlier, as was indeed the case with one witness. But the six other witnesses here in question were, so far as the record reflects, not affected in their ability to make an accurate identification of appellant by the challenged newspaper photograph. Since the police procedure was not itself suggestive, the fact that several eyewitnesses were exposed to a media photo of appellant one day before attending a police lineup might, at most, be taken to affect the weight, although not the admissibility, of their trial testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. William Gilmore v. State