Commentary: California law requires police to fix these bad policies. So why haven’t they?
by Todd Fries, Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2024
2 minutes
Dozens of people across California have been wrongly convicted of crimes largely because of law enforcement officers’ flawed handling of eyewitness evidence. Courts have found instances of eyewitnesses feeling pressured to make an identification from a lineup even when the true culprit wasn’t present; making shaky identifications that were ultimately presented at trial as smoking-gun evidence; and choosing from lineups of photos
You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.
Start your free 30 days