State v. Anderson
Annotate this CaseA jury convicted Rashawn Anderson of intentional second-degree murder and reckless aggravated battery for shooting two men on a downtown street following a rap concert. There were several eyewitnesses. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed Anderson's convictions, holding (1) it was error to instruct the jury to consider the degree of certainty expressed by an eyewitness when determining if an identification was reliable; (2) the State committed prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument; but (3) the jury could not have been misled by the instruction under the facts in this case, and the prosecutor's comments were harmless. Moreover, any cumulative impact from these errors was harmless.
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