Tucked into the new state budget are reforms that court officials have championed for years to reduce two causes of wrongful convictions—false confessions and mistaken identifications.
The amendments to the state’s Criminal Procedure Law mandate videotaping of interrogations of suspects in serious crimes and enact science-based reforms to ensure the reliability of eyewitness identifications—changes that will be “tremendously transformative,” said Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project.
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