State v. Tuttle

CLARK, Judge.

Defendant first assigns error to the denial of his motion to suppress the in-court identifications and the photographic identification.

The practice by law enforcement officers of showing suspects singly to persons for the purpose of identification, oft-referred to as “the one-on-one confrontation,” is usually in violation of constitutional due process and has been widely criticized. Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293, 87 S.Ct. 1967, 18 L.Ed. 2d 1199 (1967); State v. Wright, 274 N.C. 84, 161 S.E. 2d 581 (1968). However, the one-on-one confrontation does not render inadmissible the…