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Cops, Prosecutors Fight The Enemy: Innocence

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

"The proposal is designed to help prevent wrongful convictions, but is opposed by the law enforcement lobby.?That's a real quote. It's about yesterday's passage of a bill creating a "blind" administrator when showing photo line-ups to witnesses and victims. Makes sense. This way there is no question that the administrator is not skewing the results with a little nod or something more specific.It's like the difference between having a judge who is the brother of one of the lawyers, or one who has no interest in the outcome of the case.But innocence legislation is always controversial, because innocence is embarrassing, and anything that addresses the problem creates questions about law enforcement - police and prosecutors - that law and order types don't want asked...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).