Commonwealth v. Crowley

The principal issue raised in this case is whether the police, after subjecting the defendant to a Terry-type stop, 1 were justified in taking him back a short distance to the scene of the crime for purposes of a prompt identification. In this appeal from his convictions of several offenses 2 arising out of an armed robbery at the Cambridge Savings Bank in Porter Square, Cambridge, the defendant also argues that the identifications were impermissibly suggestive, that testimony concerning an out-of-court identification was improperly admitted in evidence as it did not meet the requirements of…