Commonwealth v. Carlson

*710 A pawnbroker, after a single-photograph identification procedure, identified the defendant as the man who had some days earlier pawned certain items of stolen jewelry. The pawnbroker's identification was an important part of the evidence at the defendant's jury trial, which resulted in his conviction of larceny over $250. The central issue on appeal is *1200 whether the defendant's motion to suppress the pawnbroker's identification should have been allowed because the single-photograph identification procedure violated the defendant's rights under art. 12 of *711 the Massachusetts Declaration of…