Opinion ID: 2054485
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Post-Lineup Interviews.

Text: Beginning in October, 1977, Mark met two or three times with an assistant district attorney and an investigator from the district attorney's office, at which meetings they showed her photographs of the lineup, particularly the second lineup, for the purpose of confirming her identification of the defendant, in light of her earlier failure to identify him. At one or more of these meetings she expressed reservations about testifying in court and fear of the defendant. The representatives of the district attorney indicated to her that the defendant was a suspect in the case and had been indicted, that her identification was significant because she had had the best opportunity to view the vaulter, and that other identifications were less firm than hers. Sometime in December, 1977, Fischman was also visited by an assistant district attorney, shown pictures of the two lineups, and asked to confirm his selection. He was told that the person he had selected, the defendant, would be the subject of later court proceedings, and that Fischman would be called as an identification witness. The following are additional findings of fact by the judge relevant to the alleged suggestiveness surrounding the Mark and Fischman identifications.