Legal Opinion
Edwardo Rivera v. Sheriff of Cook County
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 1998No. 98-1703PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
At the conclusion of a bench trial, the judge convicted Edwardo Rivera of murder. Two months later, on the date set for sentencing, Rivera’s lawyer asked the judge to hold a new trial, contending that the eyewitness identification of Rivera as the killer was uncorroborated and may have been influenced by a suggestive photographic identification. After hearing argument, Judge Strayhorn (of the Circuit Court of Cook County) stated:
This being a single witness identification case in essence the law is [that] a single witness must convince the trier of fact beyond a…
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