Preview of Member Only Content
For full access: 
or Become a Member 
NACDL News
By Jack King
Read more
NACDL News columns.
NACDL Files Suit Over Illinois 'Lineup' Report
Citing wrongful convictions due to mistaken eyewitness identification
and the urgent need to reform traditional police eyewitness
identification procedures, the National Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers (NACDL), in conjunction with the MacArthur Justice Center of the
Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern University School of Law, filed a
Freedom of Information Act suit on Feb. 8 against the Illinois police
departments that participated in a controversial study of eyewitnesses
and police lineups.
The police departments named in the suit refused FOIA requests to
provide the underlying data and protocols supporting the report’s
controversial conclusion that eyewitnesses are less likely to falsely
identify an innocent suspect in traditional simultaneous, non-blind
lineups — where suspects all stand in one room — than in lineups in
which the witnesses view the suspects one at a time and the
administrator does not k
Want to read more?
The Champion archive is reserved for NACDL members.
NACDL members, please login to read the rest of this article.
Not a member? Join now.
Or click here to see an overview of NACDL Member benefits.
See what NACDL members say about us.
To read the current issue of The Champion in its entirety, click here.
- Media inquiries: Contact NACDL's Director of Public Affairs & Communications Ivan J. Dominguez at 202-465-7662 or idominguez@nacdl.org
- Academic Requests: Full articles of The Champion Magazine are available for academic and research purposes in the WestLaw and LexisNexis databases.