Legal Opinion
United States v. Hunter
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 24, 1997No. 96-CO-756PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
The United States appeals from an order granting Thomas Hunter’s motion to suppress the eyewitness identification of him by Richard Jones and William Juame, who were the two victims of a robbery. The government contends that the trial judge applied an erroneous legal standard to the evidence of record. We agree and reverse.
I
THE EVIDENCE
A grand jury indicted Hunter on one count of robbery and one count of attempted robbery. See D.C.Code §§ 22-2901, -2902 (1996). The United States proposed to introduce at trial testimony that both of the complaining witnesses identified…
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