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To: GAgal

BUMP!

From your link:

For the March 21 lineup, Durham police used official photos of the lacrosse players, identical to those posted on GoDuke.com, the official Web site of Duke athletics. The police arranged the photos in groups labeled A through F.

Evans' photo was labeled F-5. There was a Post-It note referring to group F that said "Did not pick any".

"Eight days after the alleged assault, and two weeks before the April 4 identification procedures in which she selected (Evans) with 90 percent certainty if he had a mustache, the complainant viewed a picture of (Evans) in this case and did not identify him as one of her alleged assailants," wrote Evans' lawyers, Joseph B. Cheshire V and Brad Bannon of Raleigh. "Incredibly, though, there is no narrative report ... about these photo identification procedures."

The March 21 photo lineup could violate the Durham Police Department's policy on photographic lineups:

-- The policy calls for "filler" photographs of people who are not suspects in the case. The March 21 lineup apparently included only Duke lacrosse players;
-- The officer running the lineup should document the procedures, results, number of photos viewed. Evans' lawyers said they received no report.


547 posted on 05/26/2006 4:25:43 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: maggief

Be sure and read the actual motion Cheshire filed, found on that same link. I was laughing out loud.


548 posted on 05/26/2006 4:44:12 PM PDT by GAgal
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