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· 3/14/1979

United States v. Earl Williams

Citations

  • 596 F.2d 44
  • 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 16216

How courts have described this case

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  • five month lapse between observation of crime and identification did not preclude in-court identification
  • in-court identification by lay witness was sufficiently reliable to warrant its admission into evidence despite time lapse of two years and eight months between crime and in-court confrontation
  • witness observed defendants walk down street and enter bank
  • in-court identification admitted 32 months after crime

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Judges: Feinberg, Mulligan, Gurfein

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