Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 1/13/2010

Richards v. People

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53 V.I. 379
2010 WL 318405
2010 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 2

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holding that pre-trial identification procedure was unduly suggestive but finding no due process violation because identification was nevertheless reliable under the totality of the circumstances
noting that a reversal does not automatically following from a suggestive identification procedure — the court would also have to consider whether the identification itself was reliable
highlighting that the function and purpose of the motion dictates which rules apply
applying the two-fold test for determining whether an identification procedure is so suggestive as to violate the defendant’s due process rights
where trial court denied a defendant’s motion on mistaken ground, “[t]o determine if the error is harmless, this Court considers whether the Superior Court could have properly denied [the] motion on the merits” based on the record

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Judges: Cabret, Hodge, Swan

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