Commonwealth v. Bastaldo

How courts have described this case

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• holding that instructions on cross-racial identification required prospectively unless parties agree there was no cross-racial identification
• building on Gomes by specifying when evidence warrants a cross-racial identification instruction
• trial judge did not err in giving jury instruction based on law at time of trial
• provisional eyewitness instruction to be given in trials that commence after Gomes
• \we evaluate the alleged errors under the existing law at the time of trial\
• discussing difficulties of distinguishing ethnic differences in some circumstances

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