Andrew E. Abraham recently joined Brooklyn Law School as the Assistant Director of
the Second Look Program. At the end of his distinguished 30-year career with the Legal
Aid Society, Professor Abraham was a supervisor in the Criminal Defense Division. Before
that, he was Director of Trial Court Litigation and Supervising Attorney of the Criminal
Appeals Bureau. He has briefed and argued more than 200 substantive appeals, among them
several cases before the New York Court of Appeals that made new law. These include
People v. Newball, (1990), which established the principle that, under certain
circumstances, a prosecutor is required to give notice of an out-of-court identification
where the witness is a police officer, and People v. Novoa, (1987), which is frequently
cited for an explanation of a District Attorney’s obligation to disclose promises made to
witnesses and to correct false testimony by such witnesses
