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Lineup Was Unduly Suggestive, Court Suggested Everyone In the Lineup Should Have Been Given an Eye Patch Because the Complainant Described the Perpetrator as Having a “Deformed Eye”

The First Department reversed defendant’s conviction and ordered a new trial because the lineup in which defendant was identified by the complainant was unduly suggestive. The complainant had described the perpetrator as having a “deformed eye,” and defendant was the only person in the lineup with that feature. The court suggested having everyone in the lineup wear an eye patch:

The complainant described the perpetrator of the alleged robbery as having one distinctive physical feature: a “deformed right eye” which “appeared to be something further into his head.” At the suppression hearing, the detective who prepared a photo array and a postarrest lineup testified that, in each instance, defendant was the only participant who had an “apparently defective eye.” Under the circumstances, we find that the photo array and lineup were unduly suggestive because “only the defendant matche[d] a key aspect of the description of the perpetrator,” namely, a deformed right eye … . While we recognize the practical difficulties in finding fillers with similarly defective eyes, or photographs of such persons, “[a] simple eye patch provided to each of the lineup participants or a hand over an eye would have sufficed to remove any undue suggestiveness of the procedure” …, and similar measures could have been taken with regard to the photos. People v Perry, 2015 NY Slip Op 08046, 1st Dept 11-5-15

 

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