Sunday, August 7, 2011

Manson v. Brathwaite?

What was the outcome of this case. It has to do with whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels the exclusion, in a state criminal trial, apart from any consideration of reliability, of pretrial identification evidence obtained by a police procedure that was both suggestive and unnecessary. I keep reading it over and over and I can't tell what the decision is or what it means. It says reliability is the linchpin? Does this mean they allowed the evidence or not?

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