State v. Prioleau’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “I’ll start by who all was there at Burger King that night about a month or so ago. It was me, Tiawan Tindal, Michael Dinkins, Corey Prileau [sic]. We were having a conversation. I forgot how it got started, but Corey was saying something about carjacking. I was telling him that I didn't believe he was going to do this because they had talked about doing a jacking before or something. Corey looked around and said “You don’t believe me" or something like that and next thing I knew Corey got out the car and I seen the gun. I didn’t even know the gun was there until then. It was a dark gun. He was saying something about a white Suburban or Blazer type vehicle that was parked there at Burger King. The people getting into this vehicle were young caucasion [sic] kids. I saw about three, one boy and two girls. Corey got out the car, Tiawan’s car. Mike got out the car. They walked around the front of the car and me and Tiawan was saying we didn’t believe this was happening. We left and went to my neighbor’s house and stayed there for about 30 minutes. Then I left and went home and Tiawan left and went home. I didn't see Mike or Corey again until about two weeks later and the conversation didn't come back up.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Prioleau

2. “the use of this procedure was prejudicial, notwithstanding the victim’s allegedly independent identification at trial, because it improperly bolstered the initial photographic lineup identifications made by the remaining two victims. There was little likelihood the witness would be unable to identify Prioleau’s photograph while he was seated across from her in the courtroom. By selecting his picture, the witness gave undeserved credibility to the pre-trial identifications made by the remaining two victims---- Under these circumstances, the improper bolstering was not harmless error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Prioleau

3. “[t]he only corroboration of this-evidence was the testimony of the victims, whose identification of Prioleau was subject to attack because the early descriptions of the driver arguably did not match him. The victims’ identifications of Prioleau were not as strong as their identifications of Michael Dinkins.... Considering these factors, we find the error in admitting the statement cannot be considered harmless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Prioleau