Walker v. Medeiros’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “constitutionally problematic because law enforcement did not inform [the witness] that the suspect's picture might not be included in the array, did not employ a 'double-blind' identification process, did not record [the witness'] selection 13 As related by Cosenza's expert, Dennis Waller, these publications recommended that officers conducting a photo identification: avoid”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cosenza v. City of Worcester, MA

2. “Because Walker bases his ineffective assistance of counsel claim on his defense counsel's failure to file a motion to suppress the evidence concerning Harrison's out-of-court identification of Walker, 34 Walker must, in order to show prejudice, at a minimum show that the motion to suppress would have been granted if it had been made.”

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

3. “Thus, under AEDPA, so long as the SJC's ruling that there was no 'miscarriage of justice' due to the other evidence of [the defendant's] guilt that the jury had before it is not 'so lacking in justification' as to be 'beyond any possibility for fairminded disagreement' we must defer to it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Field v. Hallett