State v. Greene

A flurry of intense Supreme Court activity in the decade from June of 1967 through June of 1977 produced a weighty body of criminal-constitutional law that has generally been referred to simply as "identification law." The thrust of this opinion is that, notwithstanding that impressive body of constitutional doctrine, every time that the word "identification" is used in a case or an issue involving identification somehow arises in a case is not necessarily the occasion to invoke constitutional identification law. The mere word "identification" need not set off the constitutional fire bell.…