Opinion ID: 2543636
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Length Of Time And Distance From Which Witness Viewed The Actor

Text: ¶ 31 Following the testimony of Contreras, Livolsi, Channing Jones, and Pittman at the pretrial suppression hearing, the trial court found that the length of time of face to face or close contact observation [of the actor by the witnesses] ranged from one to three minutes to potentially up to ten minutes. Thus, the eyewitnesses in this case viewed the actor for a comparable or greater length of time and at a generally closer distance than the eyewitness in Ramirez, who claimed at various times to have viewed the actor for `a few seconds' or `a second' to `a minute' or longer, and whose testimony that he viewed the actor from ten feet conflicted with that of another witness who indicated the distance actually was up to thirty feet. Id.