United States v. Robert Archibald

How courts have described this case

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• “Any witness, especially one who has watched trials on television, can determine which of the individuals in the courtroom is the defendant...”
• “[S]ince the lineup procedure was not suggestive, an independent source is not required for the in-court identification.”
• when the defendant is seated at the defense table throughout the trial, it is “obviously suggestive” to ask witnesses to make an in-court identification
• in-court identification of defendant, the only black person in the courtroom, seated at the defense table, was 14 No. 13-1314 improperly suggestive, but error was harmless
• evidence that defendant was perpetrator renders improper in-court identification in federal criminal case harmless
• evidence that defendant was perpetrator renders improper in-court identification in federal criminal case harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).