· 1/18/1983
Michael Kampshoff v. Harold J. Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility
Citations
- 698 F.2d 581
- 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 31254
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “[A]ll told, absent the identification testimony, the evidence against Kampshoff is simply not overwhelming.”
- “the experience of law and psychology has been that eyewitness testimony may sometimes be the least trustworthy means to identify the guilty.... Forensic science has ... thoroughly impeached the reliability of eyewitness identification.”
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Judges: Oakes, Winter, Metzner
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