Commonwealth v. Thornley

How courts have described this case

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• \A witness's unequivocable testimony that he was not relying on a distinctive feature will considerably neutralize any suggestiveness in the photographic array\
• where assailant’s eyeglasses were determinative identifying characteristic and only defendant’s photograph featured eyeglasses, array was unnecessarily suggestive
• identifications suppressed as impermissibly suggestive where defendant was only person in array who was wearing eyeglasses and eyewitnesses testified that eyeglasses were “significant factor” in making identifications
• any impropriety during final arguments adequately remedied through judge’s instruction to jury

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