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Dallas PD moves to sequential, blind lineups

Though legislation that would have required similar changes in eyewitness ID policies at all Texas police agencies died in the end-of-session meltdown in the House of Representatives, the Dallas Police Department is moving ahead with a "sequential blind" lineup for photo arrays shown to witness. Reports AP:Frustrated with a string of wrongful convictions, the Dallas police department is now the nation's largest force to use sequential blind photo lineups ? a widely praised technique designed to reduce mistakes made by witnesses trying to identify suspects.Dallas is not the first department to use the pioneering method. But experts hope that by using it in the county that leads the nation in exonerating wrongly convicted inmates, Dallas will inspire other departments to follow suit...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 22, 2009 (boomark / email).