United States v. Shaun Brown

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing Supreme Court precedent and scholarship regarding single-suspect presentations and attempts to mitigate suggestibility
• discussing research concerning risk of misidentification in iden- tifications made by strangers
• “Even under the best circumstances, the probability of erroneous identification of a stranger seen briefly is uncomfortably high.”
• “[T]he single photo or one-person showup implies that the police have their man and suggests that the witness give assent.”
• “[T]he single photo or one-person showup implies that the police have their man and suggests that the witness give assent. Suggestibility is one of the principal ways in which memory plays tricks and leads to improper identifications.”

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