Where the State runs a circumstantial case on a specific and narrow factual basis, the prosecution is confined to proving that specific chain of events. Photographic evidence that objectively contradicts a key prosecution witness's identification of an object renders that evidence unreliable as a matter of law, and where the State's case depends on that identification, the verdict cannot stand. The court will make its own independent assessment of photographic evidence without deference to the jury's advantage in seeing and hearing witnesses.
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