James Newsome v. Helen McCabe (As Personal Representative of the Estate of John McCabe Raymond McNally and City of Chicago

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• upholding jury award of $14,000,000 in compensatory damages for 5% years of wrongful incarceration
• finding expert testimony about the suggestibility of memory and psychology of identification procedures “invaluable” and “an important ingredient” of the plaintiff’s wrongful conviction
• “Psychological research has established that the witness’s faith is equally strong whether or not the identification is correct.”
• “[P]sychological research has established that the witness’s faith is equally strong whether or not the identification is correct.”
• “Witnesses enjoy absolute immunity from civil liability on account of their testimony, and that immunity also covers preparation.”
• witness threatened into silence with fear of imprisonment by officer defendants who thereby obstructed the ability of the prosecutors and defense counsel to get at the truth in the criminal trial

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