Walter Johnson v. Richard L. Dugger, Director Division of Corrections, Jim Smith, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the identification wasn’t impermissible because the police didn’t aggravate the suggestiveness
• stating that “immediate confrontations allow identification before the suspect has altered his appearance and while the witness’ memory is still fresh, and permit the quick release of innocent persons”
• stating that “immediate confrontations allow identification before the suspect has altered his appearance and while the witness’ memory is still fresh, and permit the quick release of innocent persons”
• Immediate on-scene confrontations “[a]llow identification before the suspect has altered his appearance and while the witness’ memory is fresh, and permit the quick release of innocent persons.”
• Show-up identification with witness who viewed defendants before committing crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).