Court Opinion

ID: 9705928
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:26:54.216604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:26:22.660123
License: Public Domain

WAHL, Justice
(concurring specially).
Cases such as this one, where the only evidence connecting the defendant to the crime is the eyewitness identification testimony, must be carefully scrutinized. I concur because the identifying eyewitness, 22-year-old Deraid Grue, assistant manager of the Tom Thumb store, saw defendant in the store three times on the evening of the robbery. Grue identified defendant as the dark-haired man who had come into the store, first with two other men, then alone, affording Grue the opportunity for a good look at him, then a third time with the same two men when the robbery occurred. The photographic identification from over 1,000 photographs occurred within 2 days while Grue’s memory was fresh.