Criminal lineups get a makeover | Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec 2004

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1208/p11s01-usju.html?s=hns
Randy Dotinga
"Despite eternal questions about the reliability of memory, criminal lineups remain a mainstay of American justice: Witnesses peer at a handful of potential suspects - sometimes in photographs, sometimes in person - and try to pick out the culprit.
But in a small but growing number of jurisdictions, the traditional lineup is undergoing a makeover. Armed with academic studies, defense lawyers and university researchers say the current system, which confronts witnesses with several potential suspects at once, is rigged against the innocent."