[DOWNLOAD] "State v. Williams" by Arizona Supreme Court * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State v. Williams
- Author : Arizona Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 26, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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The next issue raised by defendant concerns the photographic lineup conducted by the police. On the second day after the incident, a police detective presented a stack of 146 pictures from which the victim was to try to identify her assailant. In this stack of pictures was a Polaroid photograph of the defendant. The victim had previously described her assailant as being a black male of medium build in his twenties. The photographic lineup was composed of all the photographs that the Yuma police department had in the mug and ID file of black males in their twenties, including 12 to 14 photographs of rape suspects from rapes that had occurred in the past. The defendant had been discussed and dismissed by the police as a primary suspect, however, because he was no longer thought to be in the Yuma area. The victim picked out the picture of defendant and perhaps the picture of another individual. Most of the pictures were identical in size and in the manner of having been taken. In arguing that his photograph was unique in being a Polaroid and somewhat smaller, the defendant ignores the fact that other pictures in the stack of 146 also differed from the majority in their composition. The testimony is uncontradicted that the detective present at the time made no comment to the victim with regard to any of the pictures.