543 So. 2d 868 - Early v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““Appellant sold cocaine to an undercover agent and a videotape of the transaction was made. At trial the undercover agent was tentative in his identification of appellant because appellant’s appearance had been changed since the sale. To support and confirm the identification of appellant the state presented, over objection, the testimony of another person, Kenny Williams, who said he had known appellant for approximately ten years and that the person depicted in the videotape selling the cocaine is the appellant. He first made the identification from the videotape in order to provide the identity of the seller for arrest purposes. He next made the identification of appellant in court for the jury. Kenny Williams is a police officer in the same department which made the case against appellant but the jury was never told that Williams was a policeman. (Emphasis mine). (Id. at pp. 868-869)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Price