Milton Chavis v. Robert J. Henderson, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility

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• identification reliable although witness described defendant simply as “a black male wearing dark clothing”
• “ ‘immediacy makes it much more likely that the witness will have a fresh recollection of the appearance of the suspect and hence that the identification will be accurate’ ”
• identification of handcuffed defendant was admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).