State v. Figuereo
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant Raquel Figuereo was found guilty of shoplifting. As her sole argument on appeal, Defendant contended that the trial justice erred in declining to instruct the jury that eyewitness certainty is not a reliable indicator of eyewitness accuracy. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the superior court, holding (1) because the instruction that on appeal Defendant contended should have been given differed in wording and in meaning from the language which Defendant at trial requested the trial justice to include in his instructions, Defendant waived her right to argue to the Court in favor of her proposed instruction; and (2) even if Defendant had properly raised her argument before the Court, her appeal would still be unavailing because the jury was, in essence, instructed in accordance with Defendant's expressed wishes, although not in the precise words that she requested.
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