People v. Taylor

Defendant was indicted for the murder of Mildred Blumenkrantz, committed on December 2, 1974, during the course of a burglary of the decedent’s apartment. An omnibus pretrial hearing as to the admissibility of an eyewitness identification supplied by one Deborah Maynard and the defendant’s own statements to police officers following his arrest on December 19,1974 was held. While the hearing court found certain pretrial identification procedures to be suggestive, Ms. Maynard’s in-court identification of defendant and defendant’s statements to the police following his arrest were not…