Robinson v. People

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a witness can testify regarding the identity of a person depicted in a photograph or video if there is some basis for concluding that the witness is more likely than the jury to correctly identify the defendant
• upholding testimony by a police officer that identified the individual depicted in the surveillance videotape as the defendant on review for abuse of discretion
• the witness’s degree of familiarity with the defendant goes to the weight to be given to the witness’s identification of the defendant, not the admissibility of such testimony
• detective who had single, prior encounter with defendant had sufficient general famil- iarity
• “[A] lay witness may testify regarding the identity of a person depicted in a surveillance photograph if there was some basis for concluding that the witness is more likely to correctly identify the defendant from the photograph than is the jury.”
• “[A] lay witness may testify regarding the identity of a person depicted in a surveillance photograph if there is some basis for concluding that the witness is more likely to correctly identify the defendant from the photograph than is the jury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).