Bean v. State

Panel: Wright, Leahy, Irma S. Raker (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.

Leahy, J.

*28 *345 Appellant, Anthony Bean, moved to suppress the pre-trial identification in this case because, he argued, it resulted from an impermissibly suggestive procedure and was unreliable in violation of his right to due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court has declared that the "primary evil" that impermissibly suggestive identifications procedures generate is the "very substantial likelihood of misidentification." Neil v. Biggers , 409 U.S. 188 ,…