State Eyewitness Identification Reform News


2007
  • TX: "Dallas Joining Police Lineup Study is Important Step," Dallas Morning News, September 30, 2007
  • "Report: Most Georgia Police Have No Eyewitness Guidelines," The Associated Press, April 29, 2007
  • "Misidentification Ramifications," Newsday, April 29, 2007
  • National: "Lawsuit Seeks Police Data on Suspect Lineups," Medill News Service, March 14, 2007
  • "A Controversy Over How to Handle Eyewitnesses," The Economist, Feb. 15, 2007
  • IL: "Lawyers Seek Lineup Data," Chicago Tribune, Feb. 9, 2007
  • IL: "Attorneys Say Lineup Report Thwarts Reforms, Sue Police for Data," Associated Press, Feb. 8, 2007
  • IL: "NACDL Files Lawsuit Challenging Illinois Police Defense of Traditional Lineups," NACDL Press Release, Feb. 8, 2007
  • "The Police Lineup is Becoming Suspect Practice," The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 6, 2007
  • NM: "Suspect-Identification Bill Advances," Las Cruces Sun-News, Jan. 30, 2007
  • GA: "Eyewitness Guidelines Urged After Man Freed," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 28, 2007
  • WV: "Senator Pushes Police Lineup Reform Bill," Daily Mail, Jan. 17, 2007
  • 2006
  • TX: "As Innocent Man Freed, Lawyer Criticizes System," Dallas Morning News, Nov. 1, 2006
  • CA: "Vetoed Bills Aimed at Reducing False Convictions to Be Reintroduced," LA Times, Oct. 3, 2006
  • AZ: "TPD Panel to Scrutinize Procedures of Photo Lineups," Arizona Daily Star, Oct. 1, 2006
  • CT: "Eyewitness Testimony Doesn't Make It True," Hartford Courant, June 11, 2006
  • MN: "Lights, Camera, Confession," Pioneer Press, July 17, 2006
  • National: "Blind Justice Demands a Little Vision," Newsday, May 19, 2006
  • National: "In Police Lineups, is the Method the Suspect?" Christian Science Monitor, April 24, 2006
  • National: "Study Fuels a Growing Debate Over Police Lineups," The New York Times, April 19, 2006
  • PA:"Judge Orders Release of Man Held in '91 Rape," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 23, 2006
    2005
  • NationaI: "When Race Differs, Identification is Iffy," Baltimore Sun, Dec. 7, 2005
  • CT: "High Court Tackles ID Flaws," The Connecticut Law Tribune, Sept. 26, 2005
  • CT: "New Rules Being Drawn for Eyewitness Identification, Journal Inquirer, Sept. 23, 2005
  • PA: "Experts: Reforms Needed to End Faulty Eyewitness IDs," Philadelphia Daily News, July 28, 2005
  • GA: "Supreme Court Issues Warning on Value of Eyewitness Testimony," AccessNorthGa.com, June 20, 2005
  • National:"Witnesses' Eyes Can Ofttimes Deceive, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 8-10, 2005
  • NationaI: "Building a Better Lineup," Time Magazine, March 21, 2005
  • MA: "Technique Transforms Police Lineups," Boston Globe, March, 23, 2005
  • National: "Revamping Va's Police Lineups," Washington Post, March 6, 2005

    2004
  • RI: "Eyewitness Blues," Providence Journal Editorial, Aug. 4, 2004

    2003
  • NC: "Protecting the Innocent," Winston-Salem Journal, Sept. 22, 2003
  • NC: "Protecting the Innocent," Baltimore Sun, Sept. 21, 2003
  • MN: "Eyewitness Identification Pilot Program May Come to Minnesota," By Barbara Jones, Minnesota Lawyer, Sept. 1, 2003
  • MN: "Police Plan to Reshuffle the Lineup; Increased Accuracy is Pilot Project Goal," (Minneapolis) Star -Tribune, Aug. 31, 2003
  • NJ: "Bid for Better Way to ID Suspects," By Seth Stern, Christian Science Monitor, May 30, 2003
  • IL: "Unfinished Business," Editorial, Chicago Tribune, May 14, 2003
  • National: "When Eyewitnesses Err," Letter to the Editor, by Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post, April 21, 2003

    2002
  • National: "Police Line-Ups Encourage Wrong Picks, Experts Say," by Richard Willing, USA Today, Nov. 25, 2002
  • IL: "When Believing Isn't Seeing," Chicago Tribune, Sept. 30, 2002


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