The principal legal issue raised on this hearing seeking the suppression of a pretrial identification of the defendant is the effect of the failure of the police to take a photograph of a lineup. I hold that the unexplained or inadequately explained failure to photograph a lineup constitutes substantial evidence that the lineup was impermissibly tainted. That failure, uncured by other evidence, requires suppression of the lineup identification...
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