Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Wood

Norfolk County Circuit Court

Decided April 16, 2001No. Case No. CR00003038Published

1Opinion of the Court

By Judge Lydia Calvert Taylor

This matter came before the Court for an evidentiary hearing on November 2,2000, on Defendant’s Motion to Suppress both out-of-court and in-court identifications by witnesses Frank Crummitt, Fleeter Reyes, and Whitney Lowrance; each identified Defendant, who is charged with a robbery they witnessed, shortly afterward and near the scene. Defendant argued that the out-of-court identification took place at a showup1 that was so suggestive that not only should its results, the witnesses’ out-of-court identification at the showup, be suppressed but also any later…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  5. People v. AdamsNew York Court of Appeals · 1981

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