Jehan Abdur Raheem, F/k/a John Whitaker v. Walter R. Kelly, Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no single factor articulated in Biggers is dispositive in evaluating whether witness identification is independently reliable
• holding that improperly admitted identification testimony was not harmless because it bore on identity of shooter and prosecution offered no other evidence tying defendant to alleged crime
• noting that a line-up is impermissibly suggestive where the petitioner is the only participant who meets the description of the perpetrator
• noting that the court must “weigh the corrupting effect of the suggestive[ness] against other factors indicating that the identification may be independently rehable.”
• suggesting that “it is human nature for a person toward whom a gun is being pointed to focus his attention more on the gun than on the face of the person pointing it”
• suggesting that \it is human nature for a person toward whom a gun is being pointed to focus his attention more on the gun than on the face of the person pointing it\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).