The state Court of Appeals is soliciting amicus curiae participation in an upcoming case that concerns a matter of significance to many defense attorneys and prosecutors: the reliability of cross-race eyewitness identifications.
The court has granted leave in People v. Boone, a Brooklyn case in which black defendant Otis Boone was convicted of two counts of first-degree robbery based primarily on the eyewitness identification of him by the white victims of two cell phone robberies. Boone is serving a 15-year sentence in state prison.
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