Tatum v. Commissioner of Correction

EDGAR TATUM v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION (SC 20727) Robinson, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Mullins, Ecker, Dannehy and Seeley, Js. Syllabus The petitioner, who had been convicted of murder in 1990, filed a habeas petition, claiming, inter alia, that the trial court’s admission of unduly suggestive and unreliable eyewitness identification evidence at his crimi- nal trial violated his due process rights. The petitioner also claimed that advances in the science of eyewitness identification since his conviction highlighted the unreliability of the eyewitness identifications in his own criminal…