{"id":57,"date":"2020-04-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/portfolio\/state-v-whitfield\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:03:26","slug":"state-v-whitfield","status":"publish","type":"canvas_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/portfolio\/state-v-whitfield\/","title":{"rendered":"State v. Whitfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead wp-block-paragraph\">Marcus Whitfield was facing felony charges built almost entirely on a single eyewitness identification made under highly suggestive conditions.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Challenge<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecution treated the identification as settled fact, and our client had already spent two weeks in custody before his family reached us.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Approach<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We moved immediately for release, then subpoenaed the full identification records. A frame-by-frame reconstruction showed the procedure violated every accepted safeguard, and our motion to suppress laid it out plainly.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Outcome<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court suppressed the identification and the State dismissed all charges. Mr. Whitfield walked out of the courthouse with his record intact.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facing a similar situation? <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/contact\/\">Talk to our team about your case<\/a>: the first consultation is free.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All felony charges dismissed after our defense team exposed a flawed identification procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"single-portfolio-law-firm","canvas_portfolio_category":[22],"class_list":["post-57","canvas_portfolio","type-canvas_portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","canvas_portfolio_category-criminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/canvas_portfolio\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/canvas_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/canvas_portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"canvas_portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/law-firm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/canvas_portfolio_category?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}