Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1984
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Romano v. United States · State v. Burch · State v. Gluff
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“We have said that a verdict may be based on the testimony of a single witness no matter what the issue, Benson v. North-land Transp. Co., 200 Minn. 445, 450 , 274 N.W. 532, 534 [1937], and that identification testimony need not be positive and certain, but that it is enough for a witness to testify that it is his opinion, belief, impression, or judgment that the defendant is the person he saw commit the crime. State v. Sutton, 272 Minn. 399 , 138 N.W.2d 46 [1965]. The factors affecting the reliability of eyewitness testimony to which defendant refers— time for observation, circumstances under which the observation was made, etc. —go to the weight to be accorded the testimony, not its admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. State
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