U.S. Supreme Court
Nov. 4, 2011
Supreme Court weighs reliability of eyewitness testimony
The U.S. Supreme Court took up eyewitness identifications for the first time in three decades Wednesday to consider whether they merit special due process safeguards to prevent juries from hearing unreliable testimony.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Herman Atkins had never heard of Lake Elsinore before he was accused of assaulting and raping a woman in that California resort town.
The victim fingered Atkins as her attacker after seeing his face on a poster hanging in a police station marking him a wanted man for an unrelated shooting incident. Due in part to the victim's identification, a jury convicted the 21-year-old Atkins. ...
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