In re O.F., 2020 IL App (1st) 190662 (June). Episode 796 (Duration 9:09)
Court reverses this conviction even though the officer testified that he clearly saw the defendant driving the car.
Read moreBy Samuel Partida, Jr.
In re O.F., 2020 IL App (1st) 190662 (June). Episode 796 (Duration 9:09)
Court reverses this conviction even though the officer testified that he clearly saw the defendant driving the car.
Read moreBy Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Clifton, 2019 IL App (1st) 151967 (April). Episode 632 (Duration 8:20)
Unduly suggestive ID, you make the call photos provided here. ** This opinion has photos.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Corral, 2019 IL App (1st) 171501 (March). Episode 618 (Duration 11:38)
Kid got his eyewitness expert witness on the stand, but the witness was not allowed to get into what she thought about the reliability of the witness.
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Macklin, 2019 IL App (1st) 161165 (March). Episode 604 (Duration 9:02)
Was defense counsel ineffective for not calling an eyewitness expert witness?
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Middleton, 2018 IL App (1st) 152040 (June). Episode 503 (Duration 17:07)
Here’s the photo… [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
In re N.A., 2018 IL App (1st) 181332 (December). Episode 578 (Duration 7:08)
It it still appropriate to allow a conviction based on the word of one eyewitness? [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
In re Christian W., 2017 IL App (1st) 162897 (August) Episode 392 (Duration 22:36)
Unreliable eyewitness is established when defense establishes that the police fed information to the witness. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Anderson, 2017 IL App (1st) 122640 (January). Episode 293 (Duration 10:22)
Trial court distinguishes Lerma to deny the use of an eyewitness expert in this case. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
Clinical Professor of Law Karen L. Daniel and Director of the Northwestern Center on Wrongful Convictions recently sat down with the Criminal Nuggets podcast. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
Assistant Professor Shari Berkowitz from California State University Dominguez Hills sits down with the Criminal Nuggets to talk about problems with eyewitness memories in a criminal case. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Lerma, 2016 IL 118496 (January 2016). Episode 132 (Duration 5:16)
Illinois Supreme Court acknowledges that the legal landscape for eyewitness expert testimony has dramatically shifted from novel and uncertain to settled and widely accepted. [Read more…]
By Samuel Partida, Jr.
There is so much research on eyewitness identification expert witness admissibility testimony out there. We have all received the message: “Eyewitness identification testimony is unreliable.” Ok, now what? [Read more…]