People v. Piatkowski

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing review of unpreserved error, regardless of its seriousness, if it is \clear or obvious\ and \the evidence is so closely balanced that the error alone threatened to tip the scales of justice against the defendant.\
• analyzing Biggers factors to determine whether identification evidence was closely balanced under plain-error doctrine
• plain errors may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the trial court
• plain errors may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the trial court
• “the first step [of the plain error analysis] is to determine whether error occurred”
• “first step [of the plain error analysis] is to determine whether error occurred”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).