COMMONWEALTH v. GERMAN

No. SJC-12601.

483 Mass. 553 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH, v. CHRISTIAN GERMAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

November 13, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Levin , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

David F. O'Sullivan , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Anthony Mirenda , K. Neil Austin , Caroline S. Donovan , Madeleine K. Rodriguez , & Meagen Monahan , for New England Innocence Project & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of the armed robbery of a restaurant owner and her employees in Lawrence. In this appeal, the defendant contends that his motion to suppress evidence of a showup identification should have been allowed because the procedure was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to mistaken identification...

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