State v. Hickman

Defendant was convicted of murder. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred in permitting two eyewitnesses to make in-court identifications. Because of “serious questions concerning the reliability of the identification evidence admitted at defendant’s trial,” and “[d]ue to the novelty and complexity” of newly-articulated rules and guidelines governing the admissibility of eyewitness identifications, State v. Lawson/James, 352 Or 724, 765, 291 P3d 673 (2012), we reverse and remand for a new trial.

On New Year’s Eve 2007, two young women—D, 19, and N, 18, friends since their freshman…