State v. Kanamu

How courts have described this case

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

• prior identification by witness is rendered unreliable when the witness testifies to significant doubt about the identification
• witness at trial was “not in the least bit positive” of prior identification
• “The extra-judicial identification typically occurs quite soon after the crime when the witness’ memory is fresher and less likely to have been led afield by incidental events.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).