Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In eyewitness identification, in criminal law, evidence is received from a witness "who has actually seen an event and can so testify in court". [1]The Innocence Project states that "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."
Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky, 410 U.S. 484 (1973), was a decision of the US Supreme Court regarding the statutory jurisdiction of federal district courts to grant writs of habeas corpus for guaranteeing the right of state prisoners to receive a speedy trial in another state under the Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Eyewitness testimony is the account a bystander or victim gives in the courtroom, describing what that person observed that occurred during the specific incident under investigation. Ideally this recollection of events is detailed; however, this is not always the case.
The man is still an inmate at another state prison. John Doe “brings this case to secure fair compensation and also to deter sexual abuse in Kentucky prisons in the future,” the lawsuit says.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
A total of six officers have pleaded guilty to violating the inmate’s rights in connection with the assault, and another faces charges.
The state's case rested "almost exclusively" on the show-up identification. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] Biggers was found guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed the sentence, which was affirmed 4-4 by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1968.
Following the prison sentence, Eric L. Nantell, 48, will be on two years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky said in a news release.