Patterson v. United States

FERREN, Associate Judge:

Appellants claim that the trial court erred in failing to suppress their identifications by a robbery victim at pretrial lineups and at trial. They argue that a suggestive photographic display had preceded and tainted these identifications. Because we can perceive no possibility of the substantial risk of misidentification proscribed by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, we affirm.

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Just after 11:00 p. m. on September 6, 1975, Raymond Holmes set out for a local bar on Fourteenth Street, N.W. As he approached the corner of Fourteenth and Buchanan Streets, Mr.…