Stephon Maurice Best v. State

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• noting that exclusion of expert testimony is most likely to be error where there is little or no evidence to corroborate eyewitness identification
• acknowledging the body of scholarly doubt as to the soundness of the assumption that the confidence with which one makes an identification directly correlates with its accuracy
• acknowledging the body of scholarly doubt as to the soundness of the assumption that the confidence with which one makes an identification directly correlates with its accuracy
• applying abuse of discretion standard while offering some suggestion that it would favor the admission of expert testimony when the State has no other corroborating evidence
• “[T]here is significant doubt about whether there is any correlation between a witness’s confidence in her identification and the accuracy of her recollection”
• defendant entitled to new trial after juror explicitly stated she was influenced by extraneous material considered during deliberations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).