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Police Officer’s Draping Defendant’s Striped Shirt Over Defendant’s Chest During a Show-Up Identification Was Tantamount to Pointing Out the Defendant as the Perpetrator—Victim Had Told the Police the Perpetrator Was Wearing a Striped Shirt

The Second Department, over a dissent, determined the show-up identification procedure was unduly suggestive, requiring suppression of the identification testimony and a new trial. The defendant did not match the description of a person who had just robbed the victim at knife-point. However, the victim said the robber was wearing a brown and white striped shirt.  When a police officer spotted the defendant, he was shirtless but was carrying a red and white striped shirt. The victim was driven to where the defendant was being held, but she was only able to identify the defendant as the robber after an officer draped the striped shirt over his chest:

Here, the active police involvement in the identification process—the police officers’ draping of the shirt over the defendant’s chest immediately after the complainant had hesitated in identifying the shirtless defendant as the perpetrator and before she did identify him—renders this showup identification procedure unduly suggestive … . The actions taken by the police officers suggested to the complainant that the defendant was the perpetrator. Although the complainant saw the shirtless defendant, she did not identify him as the perpetrator until after the police held the striped shirt up against him. This action by the police is akin to the police having pointed out the defendant as the perpetrator … . People v James, 2015 NY Slip Op 03864, 2nd Dept 5-6-15

 

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