Gary Hensley v. Bernard Carey, Robert Stanley, Theodore Williams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Brathwaite established “a prophylactic rule that protects a defendant’s right to a fair trial by barring the admission of unreliable eyewitness identifications.”
• holding that a defendant who participated in an allegedly unduly suggestive lineup but was not ultimately tried “could not possibly have been deprived of his right to a fair trial since he was never tried”
• rejecting an ar- gument for liability under these circumstances, although the suggestive identification led to pretrial detention
• plaintiff “could not possibly have been deprived of his right to a fair trial since he was never tried”
• “defendants could not have violated [the § 1983 plaintiff’s] constitutional rights simply by subjecting him to a lineup which was allegedly unduly suggestive.”
• “defendants could not have violated [the § 1983 plaintiff’s] constitutional rights simply by subjecting him to a lineup which was allegedly unduly suggestive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).