Nowell A. Brathwaite v. John R. Manson, Commissioner of Correction of the State of Connecticut

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal from an order of the District Court for Connecticut denying a state prisoner’s petition for habeas corpus, we are confronted, as we recently were in United States v. Reid, 517 F.2d 953, 965-67 (2 Cir. 1975), with a defendant’s claim that his constitutional rights were compromised by the prosecution’s display of his photograph singly to a witness for identification. Although the facts are much less favorable to the prosecution than in Reid, the State claims to be entitled to prevail under the Supreme Court’s latest identification decision, Neil v.…