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· 7/26/1977

United States v. Wallace Jarvis

Citations

  • 560 F.2d 494
  • 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 12291

How courts have described this case

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

  • informing witness of correctness or incorrectness of pretrial identification might taint later identification so as to require reversal
  • photographs and palmprints not tainted by illegal arrest where probable cause existed to arrest defendant and illegal arrest not a “but for” cause of the introduction of the evidence
  • practice of telling witnesses whether identifications are “correct” or not, could so taint an identification as to require exclu- sion of evidence
  • ‘‘[t]o comply with . . . the fourth amendment the name or a particularized descrip- tion of the person to be arrested must appear on the face of the ‘John Doe’ warrant’’ (emphasis added)
  • description required in “John Doe” arrest warrant

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Judges: Smith, Feinberg, Tenney

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