Discuss the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) issued instructions in regard to the use of photographs and the photographic array:
What will be an ideal response?
There are three instructions listed by this agency in regards to using photographs in lineups. They are:
- The use of photographs for identification purposes prior to an arrest is permissible provided the suspect's photograph is grouped with at least eight other photographs of the same general description.
- Adequate records of the photographs shown to each witness must be kept so the exact group of photographs from which an identification is made can be presented in court at a later date to counteract any claim of undue suggestion and enhance the reliability of the in-court identification. This information shall be recorded in the statement of facts of the case.
- Each witness shall view the photographs independently, out of the immediate presence of the other witnesses.
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