United States v. Craig William Brownlee

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• holding that even though the entire carjacking only lasted approximately 30 seconds while the witness (the victim) was focused primarily on the weapon, not the defendant, the witness still viewed the perpetrator “at fairly close range, and in broad daylight”
• observing that “science has firmly established the inherent unreliability of human perception and memory”
• reviewing literature and stating that “ ‘jurors seldom enter a courtroom with the knowledge that eyewitness identifications are unreliable’ ”
• examining the facts of the case to determine whether the trial court erred in precluding the expert testimony
• finding the lower court erred in excluding expert testimony concerning the “confidence-accuracy correlation” with respect to eyewitness identifications
• finding the carjacking victim’s identification of the defendant sufficiently reliable despite the victim describing her assailant as wearing shorts, whereas the defendant wore blue jeans

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).