Johnson v. State

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

William Leonard Johnson was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of second degree rape and assault; he was sentenced to twenty years and three years, respectively, to run concurrently. The judgments were affirmed by a majority of a divided panel of the Court of Special Appeals in an unreported opinion. We granted certiorari.

Prior to trial Johnson moved to suppress evidence of an extra-judicial photographic and an in-court identification of him by the victim. At a pretrial hearing on the motion, an *696in-court line-up was conducted, consisting of…