Laterrence Lenoir v. State of Mississippi

MAXWELL, JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. This case involves Mississippi Rule of Evidence 701. Under this rule, when a fact issue exists about who is portrayed in a surveillance video, a witness with greater familiarity with the defendant than the jury could possess may offer an opinion that the defendant is the person in the video.1 In this case, Laterrence Lenoir was claimed to be one of the armed robbers captured on surveillance video. So under *275Rule 701, the trial judge was within his discretion to admit testimony from witnesses familiar with Lenoir that, in their opinion, Lenoir was one of the…