Synopsis: Whether in a criminal prosecution involving a defendant and an eyewitness of different races the trial court should instruct the jury on the difficulty of cross-racial identification when identification is at issue and there is no other corroborating evidence.
Docket No. 86119-6 (from Court of Appeals Division I Case No. 64466-1)
Petitioner: Bryan Edward Allen
Respondent: State of Washington
Briefs:
- ACLU Et Al Amici
- Amici of Professors
- Amicus of Fred T Korematsu Center
- Amicus of Innocence Network (Redacted version)
- Appellant's Brief
- Innocence Network Amicus
- Korematsu Center Amicus
- Korematsu Center Amicus in Support of Petitioner
- Motion Passed to the Merits
- Petition for Review
- Petitioner Response to Brief of Amicus WAPA
- Reply
- Respondent's Brief
- State's Consolidated Response to Amicus Briefs
- Statement of Additional Auth
- Statement of Additional Authority Dated 12-26-12
- Statement of Additional Authority Dated 2-21-12
- Supplemental Brief of Petitioner
- Supplemental Brief of Respondent
- WAPA Amicus
Argument: Thursday, March 1, 2012 1:30pm
[Source: TVW, http://tvw.org]
Audio: Court of Appeals Division I
Audio: Washington Supreme Court
Decision: Pending
Madsen
Johnson
Chambers
Owens
Fairhurst
Johnson
Stephens
Wiggins
Gonzalez
Opinion
Concurrence
Concurrence #2
Dissent
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