United States v. Conrad Gonzalez

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

A jury found Conrad Gonzalez guilty of bank robbery. Gonzalez challenges his conviction on due process grounds, arguing that the identification procedures employed by police officers in the investigation of the robbery were so unnecessarily suggestive that they created a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification. Although we agree that there were significant problems with the challenged identification procedures, we conclude that any error in admitting them was harmless.

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Shortly after 1:00 p.m., on October 30, 2013, a man walked into First Federal Savings…