Court Opinion

ID: 9461549
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:16:59.170968+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:06.998984
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EDWARDS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
Although I recognize, as do my colleagues in the opinion for the court, that Neil v. Biggers, 409 U.S. 188, 93 S.Ct. 375, 34 L.Ed.2d 401 (1972), and Kirby v. Illinois, 406 U.S. 682, 92 S.Ct. 1877, 32 L.Ed.2d 411 (1972), have seriously eroded the thrust of the Wade, Gilbert, Stovall trilogy,1 these cases have not been overruled. I do not see how an identification procedure could be more “unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification”2 than the two one-on-one show-ups conducted for witnesses Borkenhagen and Farland. Nor do I believe that erroneous admission of their testimony can appropriately be held to be harmless.
I respectfully dissent.

. United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218, 87 S.Ct. 1926, 18 L.Ed.2d 1149 (1967); Gilbert v. California, 388 U.S. 263, 87 S.Ct. 1951, 18 L.Ed.2d 1178 (1967); Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293, 87 S.Ct. 1967, 18 L.Ed.2d 1199 (1967).

. Kirby v. Illinois, supra at 691, 92 S.Ct. at 1883.