Manson v. Brathwaite

An undercover officer bought narcotics from a dealer after observing him closely for several minutes, described him to a colleague, and was later shown a single photograph purportedly of the defendant (Brathwaite), which he identified as the dealer. Only two days had passed between the crime and the identification. Brathwaite argued the single-photograph procedure was unnecessarily suggestive and the resulting identification should have been excluded.

Whether an in-court identification procured from a single-photograph identification procedure was unnecessarily suggestive and therefore constitutionally inadmissible.