Supreme Court of Iowa· 3/18/1987

State v. Rawlings

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402 N.W.2d 406
1987 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1096

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holding that the identification was not impermissibly suggestive despite the fact that the defendant was the only individual whose picture was repeated in the two arrays because “[a] reasonable effort to harmonize the lineup is normally all that is required”
noting an officer's \reasonable effort to harmonize\ the photo array \is normally all that is required\
upholding admission of statement of unknown declarant under theory that “personal knowledge of the facts . . . may be inferred from the utterance itself”
“Dennis, what are you doing?” as testified to by witness to assault implicitly asserts that Dennis was present during the crime
court rejected defendant’s argument that photo array of mug shots which contained identifying information such as height and weight was impermissibly suggestive
“In the present case, the utterance ... was couched as a question but it was phrased in such a manner as to make it an implicit assertion of the fact.”

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Judges: Reynoldson, Larson, Schultz, Carter, Wolle

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