State v. Adams

Justice WALLACE, JR.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In these back-to-back appeals, consolidated for the purpose of this opinion, defendants Ibn Adams and James Comer were charged with various offenses arising out of multiple robberies and a homicide. A third defendant, Dexter Harrison, was charged with similar offenses but in a separate indictment. During the criminal investigation, the police engaged in less than optimal out-of-court photograph identification techniques. Following a hearing to test the admissibility of those identifications of defendants, the trial court found the…