Blake V. Ferguson Case

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Whether the trial court erred when it denied Mr. Blake's motion to suppress, because the pretrial identification procedure was so impermissible suggestive that there is a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.
Whether the trial court erred when it overruled Mr. Blake's objection to Ms. Olsen's and Mr. Klein's in-court identification of him, because it was tainted by the improper pretrial identification and inherently incredible.
II. ISSUE II
Did the lower tribunal violated the constitutional rights of Mr. Blake and the jurors because the court erred in allowing the State Attorney to raise discriminatory peremptory challenge based on racial and gender grounds?

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