Court Opinion

ID: 9427839
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:22:04.831843+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:08.038566
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Mr. Justice Powell,
with whom Mr. Justice Blackmun joins, concurring in part.
I join the Court’s opinion except for Part II-D. I would reject explicitly, rather than appear to leave open, the claim that a defendant’s face can be a suppressible fruit of an illegal arrest. I agree with Me. Justice White’s view, post, at 477-478, that this claim is foreclosed by the rationale of Frisbie v. Collins, 342 U. S. 519 (1952), and Ker v. Illinois, 119 U. S. 436 (1886). Those cases establish that a defendant properly may be brought into court for trial even though he was arrested illegally. Thus, the only evidence at issue in this case is the robbery victims’ identification testimony. I agree with the Court that the victims’ testimony is not tainted.