State v. Maher

The state appeals a pre-trial order suppressing evidence of witness identifications from a photographic display and evidence seized under a search warrant issued on the basis of those identifications. Defendant cross-appeals the trial court’s failure to suppress in-court identifications by persons to whom the display was shown and all evidence taken as a result of defendant’s arrest. We reverse on appeal and affirm on cross-appeal.

The victim in this second-degree assault case was stabbed in the back about 11:30 p.m. on October 31,1983. The assailant stabbed the victim while running past him.…