ALBANY - Five men wrongfully convicted of vicious crimes, one wrongly accused of a sensational rape and a woman whose mistaken identification of her rapist sent an innocent man to prison joined advocates yesterday in calling for mandatory videotaping of interrogations and line-up reform.
The New York State Bar Association and the Innocence Project are lobbying for legislation that would require police to videotape interrogations and also require “double-blind lineups” in which the officer overseeing the lineup does not know which individual is the suspect. Among those supporting their effort were five men who had spent a combined 92 years in prison for crimes they did not commit:
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