WASHINGTON – More than three decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court set out due process protections against the admission of police-manipulated, eyewitness identification evidence. Yesterday, it appeared skeptical of arguments to expand those protections.
In Perry v. New Hampshire, 10-8974, the justices are being asked to require courts to look into the reliability of eyewitness identifications whenever an identification is made amid suggestive circumstances—regardless of whether the police were involved.
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