Lafler v. Midwest Life & Casualty Ass'n

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a lay witness may offer an opinion about identification when the record showed that the lay witness was more likely to correctly identify the person than the jury
• emphasizing, with approval, that the police officer in that case “did not identify [the] defendant in the video or still images”
• “Lower federal court decisions are not binding on this Court, but may be considered on the basis of their persuasive analysis.”
• “[A] witness cannot express an opinion on the defendant’s guilt or innocence of the charged offense . . . .” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[t]he court concluded that the issue of whether the defendant in the courtroom was the person pictured in a surveillance photo ‘was a determination properly left to the jury’ ” [citation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).