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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The following articles are among those appearing in the Spring 2008 issue of Criminal Justice, the magazine of the ABA Section of Criminal Justice. If you are an ABA member, you may access these by clicking on appropriate entries at http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/cjmag/23-1/home.html/ The articles after the jump Cross-Racial Identification of Defendants in Criminal Cases: A Proposed Model Jury Instruction By David E. Aaronson Erroneous eyewitness identification is the single leading cause of wrongful conviction in the United States, and studies indicate most of the faulty identifications have a racial component. Prof. David Aaronson authored a book on Maryland’s criminal jury instructions and here he makes the case for a model instruction that cautions jurors to consider the possibility of erroneous eyewitness identification, especially when the eyewitness and the defendant are of different races and when such iden-tification is the primary evidenceagainst the accused...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).