Legal Opinion
United States v. Cudell Watkins
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 29, 1984No. 83-2583PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLITZ, Circuit Judge:
Convicted of robbery of postal clerks and postal customers, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2114, 2111 and 7, Cudell Watkins appeals, arguing that he was deprived of a fair trial because an in-court identification was tainted by an impermissibly suggestive showup at the crime scene. Finding the assigned error harmless, we affirm.
Facts
In the early afternoon on March 18,1983, two postal clerks and two customers in the Weslayan Post Office, Houston, Texas, were robbed by a slender black man wearing dark pants, a maroon jacket, a stocking mask and tan headgear. The robber entered the post…
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3Cited by14 opinions
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