Bryant v. Commonwealth

Opinion

BENTON, J.

Dennis Wayne Bryant seeks reversal of his convictions of breaking and entering with intent to abduct and abduction. Bryant argues that the victim’s identification testimony should have been suppressed because it was based on an unnecessarily suggestive pre-trial photographic identification. We conclude that the victim’s photographic identification possessed independent features of reliability sufficient to overcome the corrupting effect of the suggestive identification procedure. We therefore affirm the convictions.

We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the…