Case 13.1 ​Officer Mendelson responds to a robbery call at a…

Case 13.1 ​Officer Mendelson responds to a robbery call at a local music store. On arrival, the store owner and five witnesses say a young man grabbed an arm full of classical records and just ran down the street. Mendelson runs out of the store and sees a young man disappear around the corner. He catches up with him and tackles him to the ground.  Mendelson had seen classical records on the ground earlier, but did not see the young man holding or dropping these records. There were no other people on the street at the time, except an older woman with a cane. The police officer decides it is too much of a hassle to bring the young man down to the station for a formal lineup and decides to bring him back to the store to see if anyone can recognize him. Sure enough, the owner identifies him as the robber, as do the other five witnesses, one after another. Mendelson arrests the man and he is promptly charged with robbery.Officer Mendelson could use this procedure because:

Case 13.3 ​Officer Franklin is investigating theft of art fr…

Case 13.3 ​Officer Franklin is investigating theft of art from the local museum. Three people claim they were present when a woman wearing a smock rushed into the museum and snatched the van Gogh off the wall before running out a side exit. All three witnesses are at the police station and Officer Franklin has asked them to sit down with the police department sketch artist to help with his investigation. Together, the witnesses provide the artist with all the details they can recall, though there is some significant disagreement on some of the details. Officer Franklin uses the sketch on a wanted poster and Priscilla is identified by her neighbor, Molly, as matching the description. When she is brought in for questioning, Priscilla denies involvement in the crime and demands to have her attorney present.  Priscilla refuses to participate in any lineup. The missing painting is not recovered, though a smock matching the description of the witnesses is recovered at her home.Priscilla’s attorney is moving to have the sketch suppressed as evidence against her client. What is the best approach to attack this evidence?

Case 13.2 ​A woman was pushed to the ground by a man, who th…

Case 13.2 ​A woman was pushed to the ground by a man, who then stole her purse.  He fled the scene on foot. A police officer responded to the crime, but was unable to locate the suspect based on the description by the victim. The next day, the woman was called into the police station and selected a picture of Bob out of several photos shown to her by the police officer. Bob was brought in and made to stand next to two other men of similar height and build. The victim promptly identified Bob as the man who pushed her down and took her purse. Bob was arrested for robbery.Bob’s attorney is trying to get the identification by photograph suppressed at trial. Which argument would help her the most?