A trial court should have regarded as unduly suggestive identification testimony in which a defendant who was later convicted was picked out of a lineup in which he was the only one wearing a red shirt.
Writing in People v. Pena, 285/11, the Appellate Division, Second Department, vacated John Pena’s 2012 conviction in Staten Island of first-degree assault and attempted robbery and ordered a new trial in the case.
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