Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/6/2018

Commonwealth v. Ayala

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112 N.E.3d 239
481 Mass. 46

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not manifestly unreasonable for trial counsel to fail to call eyewitness identification expert where trial counsel \vigorously challenged\ identification through other means
new trial not warranted even in absence of eyewitness identification expert testimony where defense counsel vigorously cross-examined witness regarding reliability of identification and argued unreliability of identification in closing
reliability of eyewitness identification supported by evidence that crime scene sufficiently illuminated at time of shooting, eyewitness recognized defendant from prior encounter, and eyewitness successfully identified defendant from photo array
\we cannot say that trial counsel's decision not to call an expert on eyewitness identification was one that lawyers of 19 ordinary training and skill in criminal law would not consider competent\ [quotation and citation omitted]

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Judges: Gants, Gaziano, Lowy, Budd, Kafker

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