cross-racial-identification

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A171 Mark Watkins v. New York New York 2024-08-13 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-probability strickland-standard Whether a single unreasonable error by defense counsel constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington when it raises a r…
20-5742 David Tachay Heard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eyewit…