Court Opinion

ID: 9632132
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:04:09.278526+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:09.365070
License: Public Domain

HATHAWAY, Chief Judge
(dissenting).
The in-court identification was defective and was curable only through a hearing to establish its origin. Wade, Gilbert and Stovall, supra. This court’s conclusion, in absence of a proper hearing in the trial court, is founded on surmise and would, perhaps, not appear so reasonable were the product of such hearing available.
The conviction should be vacated and the cause should be remanded for a hearing to determine the origin of the in-court identification. If, at the hearing, it is determined that the identification was from an “independent source,” the judgment should be reinstated; otherwise, it should be reversed.