Commonwealth v. Cincotta

How courts have described this case

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• the assessment of the reliability of an identification is a question for the fact finder
• counsel aware of, or having reason to anticipate, possible suggestive encounter has responsibility to act to prevent it
• “[I]t was for the jury to decide how much weight to attach to these identifications, as well as to the others, when they were admitted at trial”
• defendant wore a blackening substance on his face and hair, “which accounted] for the indictment under the statute for robbery with features artificially distorted”
• ‘[I]t was for the jury to decide how much weight to attach to these identifications, as well as to the others, when they were admitted at trial’
• identificationspontaneously offered by witnesses seated at probable cause hearing, admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).