People v. Hayes

I dissent. The defendant has at all times insisted that he has been mistakenly identified as the robbery offender. The jury’s guilty verdict that he was the robbery offender was not fairly or properly determined.

The defendant, Albert M. Hayes, was a 19-year-old black male. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighed 180 pounds, was slender in build and he had a thin face. He did not fit the description of full, round face, stocky and chunky in build, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 to 185 pounds, 24 to 25 years old, with sparse hair and a receding hairline, which was given to the police by the February 3,…