Thomas R. Israel, Warden of Illinois State Penitentiary, Menard, Illinois v. Henry L. Odom

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Lineups in which suspects are the only participants ... matching important elements of the description provided by the victim ... substantially increased] the dangers of misidentification.”
• defendant was only person in lineup wearing glasses, which was salient feature of victim’s description to police
• use of sketch, lineup, and show up unnecessarily suggestive, but observation of rapist in predawn light for fifteen minutes plus focus of victim’s attention during crime sufficient to establish reliability
• “Lineups in which suspects are the only participants . . . matching important elements of the description provided by the victim . . . substantially increase[e] the dangers of misidentification.”
• “If such suggestiveness is found, the court must next consider whether any unusual or exigent circumstances existed which might, at least in part, have justified the use of the faulty procedures.”
• “Lineups in which suspects are the only participants wearing distinctive clothing or otherwise matching important elements of the description provided by the victim have been severely criticized as substantially increasing the dangers of misidentification.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).