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5.881 documents for Accomplice Witness

- Accomplice Witness
A witness to a crime who, either as principal, ACCOMPLICE, ...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- A–Ba
- Defense witness as 'accomplice': should the trial judge give a 'care and caution' instruction?
INTRODUCTION The accomplice is a familiar figure in America's criminal justice system. Several people are arrested--perhaps all at once, perhaps o...
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Vol. 96 Nbr. 1, September 2005
- 'Soft Words of Hope:' Giglio, Accomplice Witnesses, and the Problem of Implied Inducements
Cassidy explores the tension between the prosecutor's interest in making only loose, open-ended representations to an accomplice witness and the interest of the accused in discovering as much information as possible about an accomplice's subjective expectations of leniency, whether or not they are based on a firm agreement with the government. Accounts detailing a proposed framework for reinvigorating the Giglio rule and a suggested amendment to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to require prosecutors to put all representations to accomplice witnesses regarding future disposition of criminal charges in writing are also presented.
- Northwestern University Law Review
- Vol. 98 Nbr. 3, April 2004

- Witness: Road-Rage Suspect Had Accomplice ; Police Investigating Possibility of Second Man Involved in Fatal Shooting
A statement of charges available Thursday after the arrest of a suspect in the Aug. 6 road-rage incident that left a Severn man dead raises more questions than answers. The documents, obtained by the Maryland Gazette, say James William King Jr., 26, of Severn, who was charged with the crime Tuesday night, wasn't alone when he allegedly shot Calvin Chi-Man Yeung, 40, at the intersection of Telegraph Road and Route 100, according to a witness.
- Maryland Gazette
- August 23, 2010
- State v. Jackson, (Ohio 2010)
A confidential informant is not an accomplice, and defendants rights were not violated by the trial courts failure to give an accomplice-witness instruction at trial, as required by R.C. 2923.03(D), where a confidential informant testified against the defendant. Defense counsel was not ineffective in failing to request such an instruction or to object to its omission. Judgment affirmed.
- Ohio Supreme Court
- Invalid
A defendant was entitled to an expanded hearing to determine the reliability of the eyewitness identification used to convict him of manslaughter, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled. An eyewitness identified the defendant as an accomplice in a fatal shooting. The identification occurred when the witness selected the defendant's photograph from an array presented by detectives.
- Lawyers USA
- September 08, 2011
- N.J. Top Court to Hear Key Case On Eyewitness Ids
When lawyers argue Larry Henderson's 2004 manslaughter conviction before the state Supreme Court today, far more will be at stake than guilt or innocence. With Henderson's lawyers contending cops pressured a witness into naming him as an accomplice in a fatal shooting, the case tackles a much larger question: Just how reliable is memory when trying to identify criminal suspects?
- The Record, Bergen County, NJ
- March 29, 2011
- Sniper to Call Accomplice As a Witness in Md. Trial
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press
- The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
- April 10, 2006
- State v. Sailor, (Ohio 2004)
Principal; accomplice; separate trial; witness statement; suppression hearing; identification; other bad acts; cross-examination; new trial; newly discovered evidence; jury instruction; lesser included offense; acquittal; ineffective assistance of counsel.
- Ohio Supreme Court
- Killer's Chosen Witness Isn't the Answer ; Hearing On Bid for New Murder Trial Clouded by Contradictory Testimony From a Friend
Attorneys for a convicted killer brought an alleged accomplice in another homicide to the witness stand in Niagara County Court on Wednesday. Robert J. Thousand, 17, of Rochester, testified that a former fellow Niagara County Jail inmate told him that he was present when a friend of his killed Ahkenya Johnson, 32, in her Niagara Falls home Jan. 17, 2009.
- Buffalo News
- February 18, 2010