Opinion ID: 1847325
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Heading Rank: 26

Heading: the trial judge should have excluded identification testimony regarding jerome smith and a red and white automobile, as such testimony was unreliable and tainted by suggestive influences.

Text: ś 167. In this issue, Jerome challenges the testimony of several witnesses identifying him and Clyde or the car being driven by them as being outside the liquor store shortly before the murder. Jerome argues that these in-court identifications were the product of suggestive influences and otherwise unreliable since no other persons or photographs of other automobiles were presented to the witnesses for comparison purposes to ensure the accuracy of the identifications. At no time during any of this referenced testimony did Jerome make any objection to the identification procedures involved, nor did he interject any objection at all. ś 168. The State asserts that this issue is procedurally barred as having been waived by the failure of the defense to make any objections to these identifications in the trial court. The failure to make a contemporaneous objection bars Jerome from raising this issue for the first time on appeal. A trial judge will not be found in error on a matter not presented to him for decision. Jones v. State, 606 So.2d 1051, 1058 (Miss.1992) (citing Crenshaw v. State, 520 So.2d 131, 134 (Miss.1988); Howard v. State, 507 So.2d 58, 63 (Miss.1987)). Furthermore, `[t]he assertion on appeal of grounds for an objection which was not the assertion at trial is not an issue properly preserved on appeal.' Ballenger, 667 So.2d at 1256 (quoting Haddox v. State, 636 So.2d 1229, 1240 (Miss.1994)); See also Baine v. State, 606 So.2d 1076 (Miss. 1992).