Police lineup

Police utilize lineups on a regular basis and it is an accepted investigatory procedure in identify a possible suspect from a witness. A defendant does have the right to counsel in a lineup. The major concern is the intentional or even the unintentionally problem of the police influencing a possible witness ("What Are Your Rights During A Police Lineup?"). This could happen when the police conduct the lineup they could have the suspect stand out from the rest of the other people that they are using, example would be the suspect is Asian and they put mostly Hispanic people in the lineup with him. Therefore, if the suspect has an attorney present during the lineup, that suspect will have someone there to keep an eye out for those type of…

Police lineups are performed everyday, but do the right suspects always get picked? Witnesses rely their memories involving the suspect, like what was their eye color, hair color, how tall or short where they, how much they weigh, and was it a male or female. Sometimes these memories do not always benefit the witness during their decision making. A police lineup is going to be made of one suspect, and many others not involved in the case. There are three different types of lineups used in this…

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to a crime pointing to a suspect in a police lineup and exclaiming “That’s him! He’s the one!” There are also few pieces of evidence more flawed, imperfect, and subject to manipulation by police and prosecutors. Study after study has shown eyewitness identification to be notoriously unreliable. In fact, as the Innocence Project notes: “Eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing, playing a role in more than 70% of convictions…

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As we have often seen in movies and television shows depicting the criminal justice system, an eyewitness is shown picking a culprit out of a police lineup. However, what movies and television shows do not address is how often mistakes are made with eyewitness identifications. In actual police lineups, eyewitness accounts are relied upon in our criminal justice system as a key tool to identify, convict, and charge individuals. The hope is that these identifications are accurate. Eyewitness…