COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Respondent-appellant Michael Lane appeals the trial court's grant of Tyrone Walton's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district judge found that an unconstitutionally suggestive pretrial confrontation tainted the victim's in-court identification of Walton as the perpetrator of an armed robbery. We reverse.
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The facts of this case are detailed in the decision of the Illinois appellate court on Walton's direct appeal...
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