An accidental identification of a shooting suspect in a police station by an eyewitness to the crime is not unduly suggestive and does not violate the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of habeas corpus to Jermaine Richardson, who was sentenced to 15-years-to-life for the shooting death of Denzel Coleman and the wounding of two others during a Brooklyn robbery in 1990. He has been in prison for 18 years.
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