The Lineup

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…

Identification Procedures." This refers to the process whereby eyewitnesses identify suspects of a crime. Most of these identifications are done through either a showup (where one suspect is shown to either a victim or a witness of a crime) or through a lineup (where several people are shown to a victim or witness at the same time). Eyewitness identification is not always accurate, however. Research has shown it is the leading cause of wrongful convictions. An individual's memory replies…

Bloodsworth as the perpetrator. More accurate identifications could have been achieved by eliminating feedback effects of officers, as eyewitnesses who receive confirming feedback from a lineup administrator may inaccurately increase their certainty in the initial identifications (textbook). By blinding the lineup…

improved the accuracy of the witness testimony. The three best solutions I decided to go with are binding lineup administrators, bias-reducing instructions to eyewitness, and confidence ratings. The first is blind lineup administrators. According to the book blind lineup administrators is “the person who conducts the lineup or photo spread should not be aware of which member of the lineup or photo spread is the suspect” (Costanzo, M, & Kraussr, pg 152). Basically saying do not provide…

include, utilize lineups ( not show ups) ,similar foils, the use of unbiased instruction, to have a blind procedure and to use sequential presentation of the suspect. The idea of having a lineup is to protect an innocent suspect from being wrongly accused He lineup includes having the suspect as well as five other "foils" to take some of the false vacations away from the suspect. Another reform , was to have similar foils in a line up. This helps the suspect blend in the lineup. For example,…

perimeter-oriented lineups that had little use for traditional low-post players. Nelson in particular made a career of his distinctive Nellie Ball style, building a Hall of Fame coaching résumé over three decades with the Bucks, Warriors and Mavericks. Other teams have experimented with small-ball through the years with varying degrees of success, but nearly all of them shared a common weakness: poor defense. The Warriors are having none of that. Though their small lineups put up video game…

There are many different types of lineups, but the 3 most common are photo lineups, drive by lineups, and eyewitness identification lineups. Lastly, there are many different types of safety kits they have to carry around at all times, but I’m gonna describe 4 I thought were most important. The 4 types are a blood collection kit, bloodstain…

quote I heard on the radio, “the numbers may tease you at times but they will never lie.” There are many different ways to create a lineup each week, and I am going to show you a simple one that even beginners can follow and have some success. For those unfamiliar with fantasy football, I am going to give a little background on some of the basics. A standard lineup consists of 1 quarterback, 2 running backs, 3 wide receivers, 1 tight end, 1 kicker, and 1 defense(of an entire team). In daily…

On July 10, 2017, Police Officer Carlus Ingram, DSN 7956 and I (Probationary Police Officer James Harris III, DSN 0513) manning vehicle 2322 received a non-emergency call for a prior “Disturbance” at 2009 Hebert Street (White Castel Restaurant). Upon arrival, we were met by victim Manager Florence Jones who advised us of the following: Jones stated she was working the front counter cash register at the mention location on 7/09/17. Jones said at approximately 5:20pm, while taking an order of male…

naturally result in biases against the suspect without any specific theoretical frame of reference (Brewer & Wells, 2011). Decision confidence latency and phenomenological reports have all been found to discriminate positive decisions, without including lineup rejections (Brewer & Wells, 2011). Highly confident decisions and those coupled with relevant recollection are more likely to be accurate. However it is noted that confidence is not an infallible index of accuracy. Research has made…