Commonwealth v. Mangano

On July 26 and 27, 2000, this matter was before this court for hearing on the motion of the defendant, Anthony Mangano, to suppress an out-of-court voice identification of the defendant made by Patricia O’Brien. In support of this motion the defendant argues that the voice identification was unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to mistaken identification so as to deny the defendant due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and Article 12 of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution. The Commonwealth has opposed the…