Eyewitness Testimony Loses Legal Ground in State Supreme CourtKatherine Harmon
2023]). In 2022, New York City alone "settled cases involving 16 wrongful convictions, the most of any single year" (id.) Out of the 354 exonerations in New York State since 1989, 122 involved a mistaken
With emphasis bordering on the dramatic, dozens of important articles and books on eyewitness testimony have begun by emphasizing the central, indeed pivotal, role that eyewitness testimony plays in criminal cases. This chapter will be n... MR Leippe 被引量: 45发表: 1994年 A comparison of Chi...
We find these cases distinguishable, involving evidence far more likely to unduly prejudice the defendant than the evidence at issue here. As the People observe, the general rule is that on appeal we must assume the jury followed the court's instructions and admonitions. (E.g., People v. Ch...
that a trial court does have such power, and, except for the cases which were rejected inHudson,[Footnote 9] the federal courts have uniformly followed this rule, even in cases involving moral turpitude.Bruce v. United States, supra,at 343 n. 20, 379 F.2d at 120 n. 20 (dictum).See...
Right now, they have an exhibit that’s very large involving human trafficking in the world which is very important and they also had an exhibit about the persecution of Jews by the Nazis at Auschwitz. I asked this person if Israel has ever been mentioned in any of the exhibits that she...
Majority decisions by the Supreme Court serve as: a. Limited precedent for that one particular case. b. Precedent for all future cases of like kind. c. Precedent just as with unanimous decisions. d. Both a. and b. 1. Describe the steps...
However, the court also opined "that Kastigar-like protections may be required in cases involving testimony compelled over the assertion of a non-constitutional privilege." Ibid. Nonetheless, in concluding its analysis, the court reiterated that "because the government's right to compel testimony ...
Steve Lash
Cites New York cases dealing with testimony of an expert and an eyewitness. 'People v. Lee'; 'People v. Anthony Smith'; Lower court ruling that testimony of eyewitness expert is admissible in absence of a 'Frye' hearing.EBSCO_bspNY Defender Digest...