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Rethinking Lineups

By Leah A. Nelson

In the mid-’90s, inspired by a spate of DNA exonerations, academics began to study whether eyewitness identifications using traditional police lineups were less reliable than previously believed and found that a different lineup protocol appeared to be more dependable. So Sheri Mecklenburg, general counsel to the Chicago Police Department, and Ebbe Ebbesen, a psychology professor at the University of California… return to article

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    The “lineup” used in the Duke rape case is an example of how things can go horribly wrong when political correctness goes bonkers.

    I like the idea of the double blind lineups. No system will be perfect.

    United States Posted by wolf on Apr 2, 2007 at 11:34 AM

    You were just identified in the lineup, LoneWolf.

    United States Posted by blondemike on Apr 2, 2007 at 5:25 PM
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