Legal Opinion
Summitt v. Bordenkircher
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 19, 1979No. Nos. 78-3415, 78-3587PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY BROWN, Chief District Judge.
These two appeals were consolidated for the purpose of considering whether it is a denial of due process for a state court in a criminal trial to decline to conduct a hearing outside the presence of the jury to determine the admissibility of identification evidence. We conclude that such a hearing is not constitutionally required and that the introduction of identification evidence in these cases did not violate due process standards. Accordingly, we affirm the decisions of the district courts.
The petitioner, James Willard Summitt, was indicted for rape on…
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