Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 4, 1983No. 82-2564PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Per curiam

We affirm the defendant’s conviction for robbery with a firearm upon holdings that (1) assuming, arguendo, that the physical line-up procedure employed by the police was unnecessarily suggestive, this procedure did not give rise to a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification of the defendant under the circumstances of this case, see Grant v. State, 390 So.2d 341 (Fla.1980); and (2) the denial of the defendant’s in-trial motion for a continuance was not a palpable abuse of discretion, see Jent v. State, 408 So.2d 1024 (Fla.1981), cert. denied, 457 U.S. 1111, 102 S.Ct. 2916, 73…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Jent v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1981
  2. Grant v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1980
  3. Durcan v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1977

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ashley v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1988
  2. Garrison v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1991

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