Amore v The Queen

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Type: Case

Citation: [1994] 1 WLR 547, PC

Summary: Judge should warn jury of danger that honest witness convinced of correctness of his evidence and giving evidence in impressive manner might be mistaken — Since wrongful convictions as result of mistaken identification not known to have occurred in Jamaica reference to such miscarriages of justice elsewhere unnecessary

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Court: PC

Jurisdiction: Jamaica

Date 1994