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> The idea with a lineup is that you have some other sort of evidence, not based on how people look, and then have them identify the person No, that's not the
by Joker_vD 5mo ago
> The idea with a lineup is that you have some other sort of evidence, not based on how people look, and then have them identify the person
No, that's not the idea with lineups; if that was it, you could just show one photo of a single suspect and ask "Is that them?" Which, as you know, has tremendous problems with accuracy of identifications.
- hattmall 4mo agoYes, but that's why you use the line up. You don't just show them random people that look like what they described. It's like, the suspect was a white guy with brown hair in a blue car, and then you get all the white guys with brown hair and blue cars that were in the area and present a line up of them with similar looking people but not having blue cars and being in the area.