The order of the Appellate Division should be modified and the case remitted for a new suppression hearing.
A blind Judge should not preside at a hearing where, as in this case, because of an inability to see, the Judge is unable to evaluate a critical exhibit — a photograph of the contested lineup — without calling upon another person to describe it to him. Under these circumstances the...
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