State v. Calia

This is an appeal from an armed robbery conviction after trial by jury. The victim identified the defendant as one of two men who robbed bim of his jewelry sample case. The only corroboration was evidence that defendant and two companions, all from Kansas City, were in Portland for a few weeks surrounding the day of the robbery;

Various assignments of error are based on two basic assertions: that the single eyewitness identification was tainted by the investigative methods which preceded it, and that an offer of proof of expert psychological testimony regarding visual perception should have…