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A 4 page research paper that addresses two legal topics: police procedures for eyewitness identification using a photo lineup and issues pertaining to the Miranda ruling. Discussion of police procedure takes up roughly 3 pages; Miranda issues, 1 page. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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This examination of eyewitness identification procedures considers the following scenario. A gunman responsible for a bank robbery is identified through a description of his car, which was seen leaving the
crime scene. The accused is arrested based on this identification, which is collaborated by two eyewitness identifications of the suspect made by bank tellers who the arrest on television. Although
a police officer returns to the bank to show the tellers a photographic of the accused, which they identify as the robber, a photo lineup is never employed. The question
is: should the in-court identifications of these tellers be suppressed? While eyewitness identification has a strong influence on juries rendering a guilty verdict, research shows that eyewitness identification
is often incorrect and the confidence of eyewitnesses in their identification is a poor gauge for accuracy (Green 195). In a study of cases where DNA evidenced exonerated those convicted,
mistaken eyewitness identification was a factor in 90 percent of these trials (Green 195). In a 1995 study, the researchers had a person enter a convenience store and perform some
action that makes his behavior memorable, such as paying pennies. When clerks were asked to identify this person later, in the majority of cases, their identification was incorrect (Green 195).
It is a fact that there is a tendency for memories to be constructed so that missing information is drawn from "expectations" or "biases" and from external sources, such as
TV or newspapers (Green 195). Defense attorneys can draw on this body of research in this case. In cases where identification is made from photos, research shows that eyewitnesses
do not simply compare each photo to their memory, but start with the assumption that the culprit must be among the pictures offered and pick the picture that best matches
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