STATE v. RICKS

No. 556A82.

302 S.E.2d 770 (1983)

STATE of North Carolina v. Ronnie RICKS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by Blackwell M. Brogden, Jr., and Michael R. Morgan, Asst. Attys. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Antonia Lawrence, Rocky Mount, for defendant-appellant.


BRANCH, Chief Justice.

By his first assignment of error, defendant challenges the admissibility of the victim's in-court identification testimony on the ground that it was tainted by an impermissibly suggestive out-of-court identification procedure.

We have consistently held that an in-court identification is competent, even if improper pretrial identification procedures have taken place, so long as it is determined on voir dire that the in-court identification...

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