Maddox v. United States

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Late one summer evening, appellants were crossing Duke Ellington Bridge in a car. They accosted two women walking along the bridge and robbed and pistol-whipped one of the women.

The principal issues on appeal have to do with the trial court’s refusal to suppress evidence of “show-up” identifications and the contents of a clutch purse seized on a “plain view” theory. Both involve somewhat unusual factual features. First, the show-up identifications were made not only at the scene of the original detention of appellants a few minutes after the event, but also an hour…