Loumiet v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the lay opinion identification testimony of an officer unfamiliar with the defendant provided no assistance to the jury and invaded its province
• holding that the detective’s explanation for placing the defendant’s photo in an array was irrelevant and violated the dictates of Branch
• holding that in order to reverse conviction because of evidentiary error, there must be a real prospect that the error gave rise to an unjust result
• finding that a police officer's testimony explaining why he picked the defendant's photograph for array shown to the victim inadmissible and not harmless error
• finding that a police officer's testimony explaining why he picked the defendant's photograph for array shown to the victim inadmissible and not harmless error
• noting that “when there is no change in a defendant’s appearance, juries can decide for themselves—without identification testimony from law enforcement—whether the person in the photograph is the defendant sitting before them”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).