United States Third Circuit

A conviction for carjacking, using a firearm in relation to a federal crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is reversed and remanded for a new trial where the district court erred in: 1) excluding expert testimony regarding the reliability of the eyewitness identification evidence upon which defendant was convicted; and 2) admitting defendant's inculpatory statements which were the product of a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2006
• Decided 07/18/2006
• Published 07/18/2006

Judges

• Before RENDELL and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, SHAPIRO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa B. Freeland (Argued), Federal Public Defender, Marjorie A. Minkler, Karen S. Gerlach, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Office of Federal Public Defender, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Beth Buchanan, United State Attorney, Michael Leo Ivory (Argued), Laura S. Irwin, Paul M. Thompson, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Office of United States Attorney, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellee.