[JLS]

We have certainly discussed the IDs many many time here, but there is big news in this article. The big news is:

If Judge Smith agrees, under North Carolina law and that of the U.S. Supreme Court, he will suppress the accuser’s identification of Seligmann and any later attempt to identify him in court.

We have wondered aloud here under what circumstance throwing out the IDs means Mangum would not be allowed to ID in court. This says NC law says automatically she would be barred from false IDs in court.

Evans has the same argument. Mangum failed to ID him at least once prior. That makes Finnerty who was not in the original photos because he is so dissimilar to her descripitions possibly at the most risk. Still all of the IDs should be thrown out by a fair judge.

[SarahUSC]

I think Finnerty is the most at risk too. I worry about what a judge will do because there's a tendency to want to make someone the "fall guy" in these things.