{"id":129,"date":"2007-11-09T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/expert-testimony-in-identification-cases\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T05:17:09","slug":"expert-testimony-in-identification-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/09\/expert-testimony-in-identification-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Testimony in Identification Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Allen&#8217;s conviction for attempt murder and 43 year prison sentence was reversed in a scholarly opinion by Justice Wolfson because he found the trial court &#8220;failed to conduct a meaningful inquiry&#8221; into the Allen&#8217;s proposed testimony\u00a0by an expert in the field of eye witness identification prior to barring the testimony. Justice Wolfson writes that the trial court&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;conclusion that the proposed {expert} testimony would confuse the jury had no considered basis.&#8221;\u00a0 This opinion is a must read for anyone with an identification case or even a case in which you are trying to call an expert witness in a field that is not regularly accepted in Illinois\u00a0courts.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2007\/1stDistrict\/September\/1061943.pdf\">People v. Walter Allen<\/a>, 2007 Ill App LEXIS 1054 (9\/28\/2007)\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Allen&#8217;s conviction for attempt murder and 43 year prison sentence was reversed in a scholarly opinion by Justice Wolfson because he found the trial court &#8220;failed to conduct a meaningful inquiry&#8221; into the Allen&#8217;s proposed testimony\u00a0by an expert in the field of eye witness identification prior to barring the testimony. Justice Wolfson writes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}