(DOWNLOAD) "Kirby v. Illinois" by Supreme Court of the United States # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Kirby v. Illinois
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 07, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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In United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218, and Gilbert v. California, 388 U.S. 263, this Court held "that a post-indictment pretrial lineup at which the accused is exhibited to identifying witnesses is a critical stage of the criminal prosecution; that police conduct of such a lineup without notice to and in the absence of his counsel denies the accused his Sixth [and Fourteenth] Amendment right to counsel and calls in question the admissibility at trial of the in-court identifications of the accused by witnesses who attended the lineup." Gilbert v. California, supra, at 272. Those cases further held that no "in-court identifications" are admissible in evidence if their "source" is a lineup conducted in violation of this constitutional standard. "Only a per se exclusionary rule as to such testimony can be an effective sanction," the Court said, "to assure that law