United States ex rel. Hall v. Lane

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

While in jail awaiting trial in one case, Anthony Hall was required to appear in a line-up as a suspect in a second case. He challenges his conviction in the second case, arguing that the trial court should have suppressed the identification made at the line-up because the prison authorities refused to allow him to have his attorney from the first case present. The district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Because the government had not begun the “prosecution” against Hall in the second case at the time of the lineup, we conclude that he had no Sixth…