Arthur Lee Whitfield

• Alibi

● Missing defense portion of trial transcript.

• Eyewitness

• Cross Racial Identification
• Victim

• Lineup
• Mug shots
• Photo array
• Showup

Yes ● Show-up – showed single photo of Whitfield to victim after line-up ● Suggestive line-up ● Victim not told attacker might not be present – one victim told police had the attacker before line-up

Police showed victims a single photograph of thedefendant, nude and of his genitals, after line-up. The first victim was told, “Just come down for a lineup, that they had a man that might possible be the person” First victim said there was only one other man with a light-complexion in the line-up. Second victim testified: “Q. Were any others in the lineup the same complexion as this man? A. No.” Both victims present at police station for line-up, so before second victim viewed line-up, she saw first who “came in and started crying. I knew then she saw the man that raped her and she just cried.”

Yes ● Initially uncertain● Discrepancy in description – facial hair

One victim initially chose six photos frommug shots, stating, and recalled at trial, "I picked his and a few other ones out.” Officer read at trial description the victim gave as "shaven" but claims she was "unsure of whether or not he did have any facial hair or not" – yet defendant had a beard and mustache. Victim testified, “I said I don’t believe he had any facial hair.