Legal Opinion
United States v. Crews
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 25, 1980No. 78-777PublishedCited by 1,074 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
We are called upon to decide whether in the circumstances of this case an in-court identification of the accused by the victim of a crime should be suppressed as the fruit of the defendant’s unlawful arrest.
I
On the morning of January 3, 1974, a woman was accosted and robbed at gunpoint by a young man in the women’s restroom on the grounds of the Washington Monument. Her assailant, peering at her through a 4-inch crack between the wall and the door of the stall she occupied, asked for $10 and demanded that he be let into the stall. When the woman refused, the robber pointed a pistol over the…
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