On July 31, 1985, in the late afternoon, a young woman named Frances Silva was robbed at gunpoint on an outside stairway near 155th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. The central issue at trial was whether the perpetrator of that robbery was defendant Kenneth Lane. Ms. Silva's description of the robber, given to police officers later that same day, was of a man 5 feet, 3 inches or 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighing between 125 and 130 pounds, with a gap between his two...
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