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· 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

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  • “[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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