Telfaire instructions

cautionary instructions read to juries in cases in which eyewitness identification may be the most critical evidence against the defendant. The instructions address issues that are suspected to lead to eyewitness misidentification and were originally proposed by the judge hearing the appeal in the case United States v. Telfaire (1972), in which the defendant had been convicted solely on the evidence of an identifying witness who was of a different race.

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drug tolerance

see tolerance.