Legal Opinion
Sumner v. Mata
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 21, 1981No. 79-1601PublishedCited by 2,033 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
A divided Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that respondent’s state-court murder conviction was constitutionally invalid. Its holding has two bases: (1) the pretrial photographic identification procedure employed by state police was “so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable in-court misidenti-fication of the [respondent]”; and (2) the admission of the in-court identification “constituted error of constitutional dimension.” 611 F. 2d 754, 755 (1979). The question before us is whether the Court of Appeals properly analyzed…
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