Lee v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Charles Lee was charged and convicted of the capital murder of Phillip Cordova and aggravated robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for capital murder. The sole issue on appeal is whether the pretrial photographic spread used to identify Lee was unnecessarily suggestive and violative of his due process rights, requiring its suppression as well as the in-court identification. Because we find Lee’s argument without merit, we affirm his conviction.

An eyewitness to the murder, Leigh Sharp, testified that she and Cordova drove into a parking lot around…