Court Opinion

ID: 9521783
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:11:40.625942+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:56:18.719208
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DeBRULER, Justice,
concurring.
It is now basic that the federal due process clause prohibits the government from staging a one-on-one confrontation between suspect and victim, or showing a victim a single photograph of a suspect. Such a procedure is unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification of the perpetrator. Zion v. State (1977), 266 Ind. 563, 365 N.E.2d 766. Fair identification procedures involve displaying to the victim a group of individuals or photographs in which the suspect is included whenever possible. The main constitutional principle established by the case of Chambers v. State (1981), Ind., 422 N.E.2d 1198, is that the same due process standards apply to pre-trial voice identification procedures. When presenting the recording of a suspect’s voice to the victim, the police should include it in a voice array, for the failure to do so may be unduly suggestive of the suspect’s guilt. I do however agree that the issue was not raised at the trial level, and is thus not presented for resolution in this case.
DICKSON, J., concurs.