An upstate judge has taken the unusual step of imposing detailed ground rules, based on “pertinent scientific and academic literature on eyewitness identification,” to reduce the danger of a false identification from a lineup he ordered.
Monroe County Judge John L. DeMarco (See Profile) ordered on Jan. 20 that the lineup in People v. Flowers, 1131B/11, be “double-blind”—meaning that neither the administrators nor the witness viewing it would know if the suspect was present.
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