Defendant’s Blurry Picture Didn’t Tarnish Witness Identification

Using a poor quality picture of the defendant in a photo array didn’t violate his due process rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said May 2.

The picture wasn’t overly suggestive and the identification was reliable, the opinion by Judge Albert Diaz said.

Yvroseline Fergile was kidnapped by a group of men in Haiti and held for seven days before she escaped. She took the police back to where she was held. From a poster of a rap group they found, Fergile identified Ulriste Tulin as one of her captors.

Several months later FBI agent Alfred ...