Arizona Supreme Court· 10/17/1977

State v. Myers

Citations

570 P.2d 1252
117 Ariz. 79
1977 Ariz. LEXIS 228

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weighing the state’s policy of protecting juvenile offenders against a defendant’s right to confront witnesses
absent proof of bias and prejudice, allegation that trial judge felt criminals were being treated too leniently was insufficient to require disqualification
“fact that witnesses were previously unable to identify a defendant should properly go to the credibility and not to the admissibility of subsequent positive in-court identifications”
to demonstrate bias, party must show “a hostile feeling or spirit of ill-will, or undue friendship or favoritism, towards one of the litigants”
“‘[wjhenever possible, the fact that witnesses were previously unable to identify a defendant should properly go to the credibility and not to the admissibility of subsequent positive in-court identifications’ ”
“The law does not preclude a victim from identifying his attacker, presented alone, at a later time just because the victim could not identify the attacker in a group earlier.”

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Judges: Hays, Cameron, Struckmeyer, Holohan, Gordon

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