Chewing v. JP Morgan Chase Bank

How courts have described this case

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• considering “the witness’s prior familiarity with the person identified, where that person is a witness’s family member, friend, or long-time acquaintance” as a “factor” in assessing whether an identification is reliable
• \The danger of unfair prejudice arises because the accuracy of an identification tainted by suggestive circumstances is more difficult for a jury to evaluate.\
• “Even if otherwise admissible, a judge may suppress identification evidence if ‘its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice’ ”
• “The danger of unfair prejudice arises because the accuracy of an identification tainted by suggestive circumstances is more difficult for a jury to evaluate”
• motion judge's assessment of suggestiveness of identifications without police wrongdoing under common-law principles of fairness reviewed for abuse of discretion
• in- court identification following unduly suggestive out-of-court identification permissible only if Commonwealth proves by clear and convincing evidence that it rests on independent source

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).