Bill Text: CT HB05037 | 2011 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Eyewitness Identification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-05 - Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary [HB05037 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2011-HB05037-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Proposed Bill No. 5037 |
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January Session, 2011 |
LCO No. 3 | ||||
Referred to Committee on Judiciary |
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Introduced by: |
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REP. HOLDER-WINFIELD, 94th Dist. |
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AN ACT CONCERNING EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to require each municipal police department and the Department of Public Safety to establish procedures for conducting photographic and live lineups including having a lineup administrator who does not know which person is suspected as the perpetrator, informing the eyewitness that the perpetrator might not be in the lineup and presenting the persons or photographs in a lineup sequentially rather than simultaneously.
Statement of Purpose:
To improve the reliability of eyewitness identification in criminal investigations by establishing procedures for conducting a police photographic or live lineup.