State v. Cefalo

How courts have described this case

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• noting that trial court’s legal conclusions, drawn from findings of historical facts, are “subject to the independent examination and judgment of the Law Court.”
• noting that trial court's legal conclusions, drawn from findings of historical facts, are \subject to the independent examination and judgment of the Law Court.\
• holding that when “the challenge is to the legal conclusions drawn from historical facts, the dispute between the parties is not so much over the elemental facts as over the constitutional significance to be attached to them” (quotation marks omitted)
• victim described rapist’s eyes as one color where defendant’s were another; court held identification reliable
• findings relative to identification evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).