Teacher:In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: he was able to identify petitioner at trial because of the photographic array is meritless. In fact, Rodriguez testified that petitioner's face was "burned" into his mind at the time of the incident because he was so angry about being robbed, not as petitioner contends, that he memorized petitioner's face from the photo array. Accordingly, this argument is rejected. As already discussed, Rodriguez had an unobstructed, well-illuminated view of petitioner during the robbery that lasted for approximately 15 seconds. This view allowed Rodriguez to provide officers with a detailed, mostly accurate description of petitioner, to identify the defendant with a high degree of certainty; and the two month lag between the incident and initial confrontation is not fatal. See Wong, 40 F.3d at 1360 (<HOLDING>). Accordingly, the Appellate Division's
Holding statements: (A) holding that a five month delay was unreasonable (B) holding that a five month delay is unreasonable (C) holding that a thirtyone month delay was sufficient to trigger the barker test (D) holding that a 13 month delay was unreasonable (E) holding that a thirtyone month delay could be outweighed by other indicia of reliability
Student:
(E)