The group that represents public defenders across Tennessee pushed for photo line-up standards. Turner says officers should remain calm and refrain from suggestive techniques when conducting lineups. That student pinpointed the wrong person anyway. The student responded, “It’s just that his hair is so dark. “You’re 85 percent sure it’s him?” Turner said as he showed one of the photos to a student who watched the crime. The most concerning thing is when they were shown a line-up without the suspect’s picture in it, they still singled out someone. When the pictures were shown individually, they weren’t so sure. Students seemed more confident picking out the suspect when they could compare him to others. We showed them photos of possible suspects. After a few minutes, we explained the crime was staged so we could gauge their eyewitness accounts. They looked shocked as a man came in and grabbed a fellow student’s computer bag. They didn’t know they were about to be eyewitnesses to a crime. Most students thought we were doing a story on the organization. To show how reliable or unreliable photo line-ups are, WREG asked the University of Memphis Criminal Justice Club to help. I observed this person engaged in this kind of activity,” said Turner. “That’s probably the best evidence is when a person can say, I saw. He’s also a former police officer who used photo line-ups to solve crimes. Turner is chair of the criminal justice department at the University of Memphis. “We’re human beings and we’re prone to make mistakes, so we have to be very careful in relying strictly on our memories,” Dr. In most cases, victims or witnesses picked defendants out of a line-up. “If you got the wrong procedures, some manipulative procedures, you can get someone convicted for life for something they didn’t do,” McMillan said.ĭNA evidence has led to the release of more than 300 innocent people nationwide since 1989. ![]() Wrongly convicted for a rape, he spent 22-and-a-half years in a Tennessee prison before DNA evidence freed him about a decade ago. He added, “They victimized her too by doing her like that because the young lady didn’t know.” “She said it was so dark out there, she couldn’t see her hand, so any black man would have done,” McMillan said. He talks about how a rape victim picked him out of a photo array. McMillan says he’s proof the way police often pinpoint suspects is flawed. “I thought I was going to die in prison with 119 years,” Clark McMillan, who was exonerated by DNA, said. However, research shows eyewitness identifications aren’t that reliable, and some officers need to change the way they conduct them. It’s the evidence that can send a person to death row or get them off the hook. ![]() Eyewitness testimony is considered the best evidence in any criminal case. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. I had my 2 rolls of 12exp film developed for the price of one! Okay, enough of my story.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. But I got an idea, why not combine 2 films in a single cartridge? So that’s what I did (and maybe write a Tipster about it soon). It was as if suddenly my coin purse tossed a 50 Peso bill in my hand and made me buy 5 rolls.īut here’s the twist, it was a 12 shot film, so if your lab develops a 12 exp film at the same price as the 36 exp. Actually, the film is expired, but only a few months, I asked the grumpy woman at the desk how much the film was. Photoline is a photo printing/developing service company with many branches here in the Philippines, so it was a mystery to me how it got there in that particular shop. ![]() It just caught my eye, because of the unfamiliar box, and when I checked it was “Photoline ASA 200” film. I found the film in a store named ‘True Colors’.
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