Opinion ID: 1444074
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Pre-Trial Motion to Suppress Identification

Text: Appellant Lyons filed a pre-trial motion to suppress the show-up identification, arguing that the identification procedure was unduly suggestive and based on an unreliable witness. Officers Harkins, Ennis, and Payne testified for the government about the initial interview with Ms. Shives and the identification procedure. They said that Ms. Shives had given a detailed description right after the robbery and that she was certain when she identified Lyons at the show-up. After a hearing, the trial judge denied the motion to suppress, finding that he was struck by [Ms. Shives'] [above-average] observations in this case, and that there [was] nothing about the length of time between the incident and the show-up ... [or] the conduct of the show-up itself that gives any hint of the show-up having been unduly suggestive. He concluded that the procedure was not outside the routine show-up, and was reliable in all the circumstances.