Opinion ID: 687621
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Heading: The Misidentification

Text: 10 Earlier in this scenario, sometime in January 1993, Agent Crawford showed Barbara Howard official mug-shots of a young black male and asked if she could identify the person. Howard testified that this meeting took place at night and that she was seated in her automobile outside of a store. It was dark and rainy and the lighting from the store window was poor. Howard told Crawford that she thought the photographs were of Dirty-Dirty. She never stated that the pictures were of any person other than Dirty-Dirty. The photographs shown to Howard, however, were actually of an individual named Tracy Scott King. As a result of Howard's tentative identification, all reports by law enforcement agencies thereafter contained the name, Tracy Scott King. 11 Defense counsel was never informed of the Howard misidentification incident by the Government. Rather, the information was discovered only through defense counsel's cross-examination of Howard at trial. The defendant argues that the nondisclosure of this information violated Brady. This contention is the primary subject of the appeal presently before the court. 12