Does the whole photo lineup as a whole cause a witness to focus on a particular photograph?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hernandez, A135426, A138001 (Cal. App. 2014):
this: whether the lineup as a whole would cause a witness to focus on a particular photograph, namely, the defendant's photograph. (People v. Carpenter (1997) 15 Cal.4th 312, 367.)
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