State v. Lawson/James

In these two criminal cases consolidated for purposes of opinion, each defendant’s conviction was based, for the most part, on eyewitness identification evidence. In State v. Lawson, 239 Or App 363, 244 P3d 860 (2010), the Court of Appeals concluded that, despite the state’s use of unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedures, under the test first articulated by this court in State v. Classen, 285 Or 221, 590 P2d 1198 (1979), the victim’s identification of defendant Lawson had been reliable enough to allow the jury to consider it in its deliberations. In State v. James, 240 Or App…