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Ledbetter, Laquan, State v (2005)

Counsel: Innocence Project, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Wisconsin Innocence Project, North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, Northern California Innocence Project
Case Number: S.C. 17307
Position: Courts should adopt a rule that failure to caution a witness that the culprit might not be present at an identification procedure renders that procedure unnecessarily suggestive, requiring, at the very least, a curative jury instruction.

Lockhart, Julian J., State of Connecticut v. (2008)

Counsel: Innocence Network by Thomas P. Sullivan
Case Number: S.C. 17773
Position: Arguing that the court should mandate electronic recording of interrogations. Issues: Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations