Court Opinion

ID: 9455223
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:15:07.278107+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:30.605667
License: Public Domain

PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:
I concur, but I regret that the matter is given so elaborate treatment. We have a simple case. An unbiased adult, *1310in full possession of all his faculties and in a well-lighted place, watched for about ten minutes a robbery being committed. Thereafter this witness, without hesitation or doubt, identified one of the robbers. That he made the same identification of the same robber with the same certainty twice instead of only once seems to me to be a simplifying factor rather than a complicating one. The court puts this material through a complex process of consideration. I regret the treatment, because I believe it confuses and unnecessarily burdens busy prosecutors and trial judges.