Dozie v. State

Was either the photographic or the courtroom identification of the defendant by the witness to the crime impermissibly suggestive or conducive to irreparable mistaken identification? That is the test. While the claim of taint involves the totality of circumstances surrounding the two identifications challenged, we will deal with each individually and separately.

Identification by photograph.

Here the witness positively identified a photograph of the defendant as a photograph of one of the two men who held up the service station. He did so after viewing well over 500 police photographs of…