Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/15/1983

Commonwealth v. Pressley

Citations

457 N.E.2d 1119
390 Mass. 617
1983 Mass. LEXIS 1789

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requiring judge to give “good faith error” instruction in appropriate circumstances
reversing conviction based on failure to give adequate eyewitness identification instruction
when the facts permit it and the defendant requests it, “[f]airness to a defendant compels the trial judge to give an instruction on the possibility of an honest but mistaken identification”
when the facts permit it and the defendant requests it, \[f]airness to a defendant compels the trial judge to give an instruction on the possibility of an honest but mistaken identification\
\Identification was crucial to the Commonwealth's case because there appears to be no evidence of the defendant's complicity independent of the identification\
“Fairness to a defendant compels the trial judge to give an instruction on the possibility of an honest but mistaken identification when the facts permit it and when the defendant requests it”

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Judges: Hennessey, Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch

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