State v. McLaurin

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of the defendant’s motion to suppress a restaurant employee’s one-on-one identification. It assumed, without deciding, that the showup procedure was unnecessarily suggestive but held that the identification was reliable under the totality of the circumstances, including the witness’s opportunity to observe the defendant, accurate prior description, certainty, and the short time between the robbery and identification. The court also rejected the defendant’s arguments that estimator variables undermined reliability.