McElrath v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• in court identifications were admissible where the witnesses had an independent basis for the identification and the circumstances surrounding the identification rendered it reliable
• “...prompt, one-on-one identification is not per se violative of the accused’s constitutional rights, even where the accused has been returned to the scene of the crime in a police cruiser.”
• determining an identification was reliable where the victim observed the perpetrator at close range for approximately five seconds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).