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	<title>Eyewitness Identification Reform Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Tech for Composite Sketches</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/new-tech-for-composite-sketches/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/new-tech-for-composite-sketches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in this month&#8217;s issue of Forensic Magazine covers some interesting new software-based approaches to the development of facial composites being developed in the UK.  Two research groups have been independently developing facial composite software that attempts to apply existing knowledge about how human memory of faces works.
According to Dr. Charlie Ford at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NACDL&#8217;s Response to Ruling (Mostly) Denying Access to Illinois Lineup Data</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/nacdls-response-to-ruling-mostly-denying-access-to-illinois-lineup-data/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/nacdls-response-to-ruling-mostly-denying-access-to-illinois-lineup-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Following yesterday&#8217;s ruling in Cook County, NACDL has offered its official response, which reads in part:
“The Court has dealt a blow to the public today. We will appeal the decision and continue to demand that the Chicago Police turn over all of the data and case files behind a report that contradicts vast amounts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NACDL Denied Access to Chicago Sham Lineup Study Data</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/nacdl-denied-access-to-chicago-sham-lineup-study-data/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/nacdl-denied-access-to-chicago-sham-lineup-study-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A state court in Illinois today just denied NACDL access to the data underlying the controversial Illinois/Mecklenburg Report on police identification procedures, which means the widely denounced results remain cloaked in secrecy.
NACDL has stated that they will appeal the decision.  We&#8217;ll report further as we have more info.
UPDATE: More news coverage here.  Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Place your finger here&#8221; (Or: Police Lineups in Louisiana)</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/place-your-finger-here-or-police-lineups-in-louisiana/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/place-your-finger-here-or-police-lineups-in-louisiana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[louisiana]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[photo arrays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Naturally law enforcement officers are insisting that this wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;real&#8221; photo array, but WWLTV in Louisiana is reporting that a photo array was uncovered in a Louisiana police department which included, above the suspect&#8217;s photo, the words:

&#8220;Place your finger here&#8221;
and
&#8220;He did it&#8221;
The photo was discovered on a bulletin board inside the police department by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Mis-ID Wrongful Conviction Revealed in Illinois</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/another-mis-id-wrongful-conviction-revealed-in-illinois/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/another-mis-id-wrongful-conviction-revealed-in-illinois/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 18:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Cage was released from prison in Chicago last night, after serving nearly 14 years in prison for a crime he didn&#8217;t commit.  Mr. Cage&#8217;s exoneration marks the 29th wrongful conviction revealed in the state of Illinois, since the Innocence Project began investigating cases in which DNA evidence was preserved and held the potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flaws in the ABA&#8217;s Jury Instruction on Cross-Race</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/abas-flawed-jury-instruction-on-cross-race/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/abas-flawed-jury-instruction-on-cross-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ezekieledwards</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At a groundbreaking two-day eye-ID litigation conference in NYC in March co-sponsored by the Eyewitness ID Reform Litigation Network, we addressed the issue of cross-race instructions, including the ABA version referred to this week at the Kansas Defenders blog. In short, while it is certainly good news that the ABA is paying attention to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lineup &#8220;Wild Cards&#8221; as Precaution Against Mis-ID</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/lineup-wild-cards-as-precaution-against-mis-id/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/lineup-wild-cards-as-precaution-against-mis-id/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[blank lineup]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[identification procedure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[new zealand]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eyeid.wordpress.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We reported on a New Zealand study last year that seeks to test the effectiveness of including a &#8220;wild card&#8221; in a police lineup, as an additional protection to cue to the witness that &#8220;none of the above&#8221; is a perfectly valid choice.  Personally, I think this is a fantastic idea &#8212; imagine the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Flawed Lineup, Another Exoneration in Dallas County, and a Glimmer of Hope</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/another-flawed-lineup-another-exoneration-in-dallas-county-and-a-glimmer-of-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/another-flawed-lineup-another-exoneration-in-dallas-county-and-a-glimmer-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Clifford McGowan Jr. has spent the last 23 years in prison because he was selected from a fundamentally flawed photo lineup, after his photo was collected from a traffic offense two days after a rape/burglary.
From the Dallas Morning News:
The 49-year-old would become the 16th Dallas County inmate to be cleared through DNA testing since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Clothing Bias&#8221;: More than Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/clothing-bias-more-than-common-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/clothing-bias-more-than-common-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief Judge Easterbrook in the 7th Circuit ruled on a case yesterday in which the central issue on appeal was whether an ID was properly admitted over a motion to suppress, where all the members of the lineup were wearing identical prison clothes with navy blue slippers, with the exception of the suspect, who wore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Denied Again for Troy Davis</title>
		<link>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/justice-denied-again-for-troy-davis/</link>
		<comments>http://eyeid.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/justice-denied-again-for-troy-davis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Hiltzheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The AP is reporting that the Georgia Supreme Court has denied Troy Davis&#8217;s latest effort to obtain a new trial.  Mr. Davis&#8217;s attorneys filed a new motion, following the court&#8217;s March 17 denial of their earlier extraordinary motion for a new trial, this time moving for reconsideration of that earlier ruling.
A substitute opinion was also [...]]]></description>
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