Defendant-appellant, charged with felony murder and related crimes, did not have a fair trial. There were three outstanding errors, and, since the sum of the prejudice of all three makes a new trial necessary, it is not required that each be evaluated separately, as to its possible prejudicial weight. A police sergeant was permitted to bolster the identification testimony of two eyewitnesses by his description of how they selected photographs from amongst a group submitted...
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