Excerpt from Reclaiming the Importance of the Defendant's Testimony: Prior Conviction Impeachment and the Fight against Implicit Stereotyping

by Anna Roberts, 83 U. Chi. L. Rev. 835 (2016)

This excerpt describes how courts (and lawyers) have been misinterpreting the fourth factor, and proposes an approach to the factor that could be used to fight implicit racial bias.

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