EVANS v. JANING

No. 73-1156.

489 F.2d 470 (1973)

Johnson Kenneth EVANS, Appellant, v. Theodore JANING, Sheriff of Douglas County, Nebraska, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin A. Cannon, Omaha, Neb., for appellant.

Mel Kammerlohr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., for appellees.

Before HEANEY, STEPHENSON and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges.


WEBSTER, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from the order of the District Court denying habeas corpus relief, Johnson Kenneth Evans asserts two constitutional challenges to the eyewitness identifications upon which his state robbery conviction depended: (1) that the eyewitness testimony was tainted by a prior uncounselled photographic display; and (2) that the state prejudiced his defense by failing to produce evidence favorable to the accused in the form of a police...

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