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WEBSTER v. STATE

Nos. 116, 128, September Term, 1983.

299 Md. 581 (1984)

474 A.2d 1305

BERNARD WEBSTER v. STATE OF MARYLAND. VICTOR SALVADORE JOHNSON, A/K/A SALVADORE VICTOR JOHNSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 25, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Vahle, Towson (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Deborah K. Chasanow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. and Bernard A. Penner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Atty., and Jonathan Scott Smith, Asst. State's Atty., for Baltimore Co., Towson, on the brief), for appellee. appellee.

Argued before SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Retired, Specially Assigned Judge.

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Retired, specially assigned.

These appeals are concerned with lineups. A lineup, also known as an "identification parade" or "showup," is arranged by the police investigating the commission of a crime. It is a confrontation between a suspect and prospective identifying witnesses, and its purpose is to obtain evidence establishing that the suspect is the criminal agent. It is usually conducted at a police station under carefully controlled...

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