State v. Hooks

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

Keith Hooks appeals his conviction of third-degree controlled substance crime. Hooks sold cocaine from his car to an undercover police officer who later identified Hooks as the seller by obtaining and viewing Hooks’s driver’s license photograph from the Department of Motor Vehicles electronic database. Hooks contends on appeal that the district court violated his constitutional right to due process by failing to suppress evidence of the identification, arguing that the identification procedure was tantamount to an unduly suggestive one-person photographic lineup. Hooks also…