People v. Chamberlin

In People v Tunstall (63 NY2d 1, 9, supra), the Court of Appeals listed seven factors that the hearing court was to take into consideration upon remittitur. In a well-reasoned decision Justice Felig reviewed each of these factors in the context of this case as follows:(1) The amount of confidence the victim had in her initial recollections prior to being hypnotized:

*365The victim unequivocally identified the defendants as the perpetrators several times prior to being hypnotized. Based upon these identifications, and the confidence revealed by the victim in her prehypnosis interview and during the…