Willie Williams

• Alibi

● Defendant’s friend’s mother testified that defendant was at her house at the time the crime occurred.

Defendand denied committing the offense and described his whereabouts the evening of the crime. He testified “I’m not familiar with that area” where the crime took place and that “I don’t have a driver’s license or a car” with which he could have travelled there.

• Eyewitness
• Forensic Evidence

• Serology

• Invalid

The victim was an O secretor, O blood group substances were found, and Williams was a non-secretor. The analyst claimed to exclude 44% and include O secretors and all non-secretors – but not A or B secretors. In fact none could be eliminated. See Part II.A.1 for a description of the problem of masking and non-quantification and discussion of similar cases.

• Cross Racial Identification
• Victim

• Composite drawing
• Mug shots
• Photo array
• Showup

Yes ● Suggestive remarks – told victim suspect may be in photo array, and told other victim before show-up that man had been arrested for something else ● Show-up – first live identification by both victims was at preliminary hearing, where defendant was brought before them by police ● Show-up – one victim shown other victim’s composite drawing prior to preparing one. Also brought victim to apartment of second victim while she viewed photo array.

Officer testified: “After showing the composite drawing, she informed me that – she stated that that’s him, that’s him” “I informed her that I had a spread, some pictures for her to look at, one of the pictures that I think may be the suspect…” First victim – “they told me they had arrested the man for something else, to bring him to let me see him. If that wasn’t him they would keep looking. They brought him in and they said take a look but we need to know if this was him.”

No – although one victim described medium complexion, while another described dark complexion

• State Law Evidence Claim

• HE

Williams v. State, 181 Ga. App. 693 (1987)