UNITED STATES v. SHEEHAN

No. 78-1011.

583 F.2d 30 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William Joseph SHEEHAN, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Troy, Dorchester, Mass., on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Edward F. Harrington, U. S. Atty., and Robert B. Collings, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief, Criminal Division, Boston, Mass., on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Appellant appeals his conviction for bank robbery, asserting reversible error in (1) the admission of a photocopy of a paper found in his wallet which he alleges to have been an unlawful seizure incidental to his arrest and (2) the repeated showing to a witness of an impermissibly suggestive photographic array. The former ground is the only one meriting extended discussion.

On August 19, 1975 at about 3:00 p. m., a bank robbery, in which...

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