People v. Wilson

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment of death after rejecting challenges to eyewitness-identification evidence, jury instructions concerning eyewitness certainty, impeachment restrictions, the admission of a codefendant's preliminary-hearing testimony, and related evidentiary rulings. It held that the photographic lineup was not unduly suggestive, that the in-court identification was independently reliable, and that any errors in limiting impeachment evidence were harmless under the applicable standards. The opinion also held that later statements by an unavailable hearsay declarant were admissible to impeach former testimony, but their erroneous exclusion was not prejudicial.