Court Error – Admittance of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//July 18, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Conrad Gonzalez

Case No.: 16-1932

Officials: ROVNER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and CONLEY, District Judge

Focus: Court Error – Admittance of Evidence

A jury found Conrad Gonzalez guilty of bank robbery. Gonzalez challenges his conviction on due process grounds, arguing that the identification procedures employed by police officers in the investigation of the robbery were so unnecessarily suggestive that they created a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification. Although we agree that there were significant problems with the challenged identification procedures, we conclude that any error in admitting them was harmless.

Affirmed

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