Legal Opinion
State v. Boucher
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 9, 1977PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHIBALD, Justice.
On September 15, 1975, the defendant appeared in a police lineup and thereafter was arrested on a charge of assault with intent to rape. 17 M.R.S.A. § 3153. He subsequently was indicted therefor and entered a plea of not guilty. Alleging that the pretrial lineup was “so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification,” the defendant filed a motion to suppress evidence “relating to any in-court and out-of-court identification.” After hearing, the Justice below denied the motion arid ultimately a jury returned a…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Gordon v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by10 opinions
- State v. CefaloSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
- State v. WoodburySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
- State v. MasaniaiHawaii Supreme Court · 1981
- State v. ConwellSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
- State v. St. OngeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
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