United States of America Ex Rel. Joseph Cummings v. John L. Zelker, Warden, Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York

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• holding that show-up procedure was necessary to ensure “the immediate release of an innocent suspect and at the same time to enable the police to resume the search for the fleeing culprit while the trail [was] still fresh”
• holding showup identification was not unnecessarily suggestive where showup took place thirty minutes after the crime at the scene of the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).