Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Miller

Frederick County Circuit Court

Decided July 31, 1989No. Case Nos. 89-46 and 89-47Published

1Opinion of the Court

By JUDGE ROBERT K. WOLTZ

The defendant is charged with robbery. He filed motion to suppress a pretrial identification and, on the basis of that pretrial identification, asserts his in-court identification at his preliminary hearing was tainted also and should be suppressed. The motion is denied.

The victim, a clerk in a convenience store, was robbed at night at gunpoint. The store was brightly lit and the robber was the only person other than the victim to be in the store during the entire incident. The robber obtained some merchandise and paid for it at the cash register counter where the two…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Zeigler v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1972
  5. Lesoine v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1968

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