Sentences with phrase «witness identification procedures»

Launch the «New York Promise» Agenda to Advance Social Justice and Affirm New York's Progressive Values - Reforms of the Criminal Justice System including «overhauling New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, raising the age of criminal responsibility, improving witness identification procedures, recording police interrogations for serious offenses, and extending the Hurrell - Harring settlement reforms statewide.»

Just this past year, legislative changes show New Yorkers can make a difference: by raising the age of criminal responsibility, enacting bail reform, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving witness identification procedures and requiring video - taped police interrogation for serious offenses.

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Philosophical theology goes «beyond the identification of criteria and procedures for judgment to the making of actual judgments concerning the meaning and truth of Christian witness» (46).

These proposals include videotaping the identification procedure so that juries can determine if it was conducted properly, putting individuals in the lineup who resemble the witness's description of the perpetrator, informing the viewer of the lineup that the perpetrator may or may not be in it, and ensuring that the person administering the lineup or other identification procedure does not know who the suspect is.

To evaluate these auditory capacities, he created a series of voice «lineups,» a technique inspired by the well - known visual identification procedure used by police, in which a group of individuals sharing similar physical traits are placed before a witness.

States are changing criminal justice procedures to grant inmates more access to DNA evidence, address questions about witness identifications, change the way evidence is handled and modernize other procedures, hoping the changes will result in better convictions and fewer challenges, The New York Times reports.

Accused allegedly assaulted five victims during confrontation in nightclub and left before being apprehended — Weeks later, accused was arrested after witness to assaults saw him at another nightclub and informed one of victims who was also at nightclub — Accused charged with three counts of assault causing bodily harm and two counts of assault and was convicted at trial — Trial judge found that identification evidence was reliable and that proper procedures were employed for photographic lineup — Accused appealed — Appeal allowed; new trial ordered — Fresh evidence was admissible because it was sufficiently credible and, if believed, was reasonably expected to have affected result — Verdict was not unreasonable, but there were frailties in identification procedure and in identification evidence of witnesses.

This case concerned the admissibility of a statement made by a witness during an identification procedure held pursuant to PACE Code D.