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Young v. State

Citations

  • 374 P.3d 395
  • 2016 Alas. LEXIS 81
  • 2016 WL 3369222

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the Biggers factors do not provide a sufficient measure for reliability and that state due-process protections require a different reliability analysis
  • holding that failure to give requested jury instruction was harmless error
  • adopting procedure under Alaska constitution for determining admissibility of identification following unnecessarily suggestive procedure that \closely follows the [ Henderson ] framework\
  • following Henderson and Lawson, and replacing the Biggers factors with lists drawing on system and estimator variables
  • identifying six “system” variables and nine “estimator” variables that a court must consider when determining whether to suppress an identification as unreliable
  • but announcing new, more protective due process test under state law for future cases

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Judges: Fabe, Stowers, Maassen, Bolger

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