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Barry Scheck on eyewitness ID best practices

In its coverage of last week's initial meeting of the Court of Criminal Appeals' Criminal Justice Integrity Unit, Mary Alice Robbins at Texas Lawyer described a presentation by national Innocence Project co-director Barry Scheck regarding best practices for eyewitness ID procedures:The meeting also featured a presentation by Barry Scheck, co-director of New York's Innocence Project, on the use of a computerized photo lineup program. With the high-tech software program, photo lineups can be downloaded onto a laptop computer that law enforcement can take to a witness in the field, Scheck said.Scheck said the computer makes an audio or video recording as the witness goes through the photo array so there will be some form of documentation of the identification procedure...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).