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December 31, 2008
Georgia law enforcement to adopt stronger eyewitness identification standards
This is a great development. The Macon Telegraph has the story.
Anyone who has followed the work of the Georgia Innocence Project, and other Innocence Projects around the country, have no doubt been disturbed by the amount of people held in prison for crimes they did not commit. The sad fact is that many of these people were wrongfully convicted on the basis of "eyewitness testimony."
Hopefully, these new standards will help reduce the number of people falsely accused by mistaken eyewitnesses. But it's a shame that these standards could not have been adopted by the Georgia General Assembly when they were first introduced by Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield.
Maybe this year?
