Rupprecht v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• photo throwdown was suggestive where the “defendant’s was the only picture of a white man with short, dark curly hair”
• “[T]he fact that the witness * * * was not told that the suspect was among the samples is not determinative on the issue of suggestiveness.”
• identification was reliable where the witness had “at least two face-to-face encounters with the suspicious man” and, during the second encounter, “took special note of his appearance”
• voice identification procedure was suggestive where, although six recordings were played for the witnesses, the recording of the defendant’s voice was unscripted and contained background noise and therefore sounded more natural than the others

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).