Manson v. Brathwaite
- Decided
- June 16, 1977
- Docket
- 75-871
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- holding that a "totality of the circumstances" test must be applied to in-court identifications following suggestive pretrial lineups — Lattimore v. State (2007)
- concluding that “liability is the linchpin in determining the 12 admissibility of identification testimony” and identifying certainty as a factor to consider — (HC)(Consent) Smith v. Jones (2023)
- holding that a “totality of the circumstances” test must be applied to in- court identifications following suggestive pretrial lineups — Terry Lee Lattimore v. State of Mississippi (2002)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Me. Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the issue as to whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels the exclusion, in a state criminal trial, apart from any consideration of reliability, of pretrihl identification evidence obtained by a police procedure that was both suggestive and unnecessary. This Court’s decisions in Stovall v. Denno, 388 U. S. 293 (1967), and Neil v. Biggers, 409 U. S. 188 (1972), are particularly implicated.
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Manson v. Brathwaite, 432 U.S. 98 (1977)Read the full opinion
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