STATEN ISLAND police officers recently conducted the first court-ordered sequential lineup in New York, after a judge called for the procedure in an alleged robbery.
The decision to follow the court order comes at a time when prosecutors throughout the five boroughs are contemplating whether to challenge similar rulings or to modify long-accepted rules of witness identification. Though other judges have ordered sequential lineups, until now prosecutors have chosen to conduct no lineup at all rather than follow a court order.
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