Commonwealth v. Dew – The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has solicited amicus briefs on these related questions:
Whether a witness’s in-court identification of a defendant is inadmissible where it was preceded by an unequivocal pretrial identification by the witness that allegedly was the product of a suggestive procedure (although, apparently, not so suggestive as to require suppression); whether the degree of the suggestiveness of the pretrial identification is relevant in determining whether that identification was “unequivocal.