State v. Tucker

From a conviction by the court sitting without a jury, of aggravated sexual assault, 1 defendant appeals on the ground that the victim’s identification was inaccurate and prompted by a police officer’s unfair photograph “lineup,” suggesting inducement of such identification. He contends that there was insufficient evidence to convict him, and that the “array” of pictures in the photographic lineup was “suggestive” to the point of denying him due process of law, which resulted in an unwarranted conviction.

The claim that a police officer unfairly set up a “suggestive” array of pictures to…