CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT-LOOKS LIKE WERE OFF TO COURT AGAIN

This issue is over the use of traditional line-up.

Thursday February 8, 8:10 am ET

New Analysis Shows That 54 Innocent Persons Spent 601 Years Behind Bars in
Illinois Because of Erroneous Eyewitness Identifications

What: The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers will file a lawsuit today against the Chicago police and other Illinois police departments that participated in a controversial study of eyewitness and police lineups. The police refused to provide the underlying data and protocols supporting the report's controversial conclusion that current eyewitness procedures -- those that use traditional line ups where all suspects stand in a room together -- are more effective than new procedures in which witnesses view one suspect at a time under the supervision of an officer who does not know who the suspect is in the line up.

When/Where: TODAY, February 8, 2007, 10 am
Northwestern University School of Law
Rubloff Building, 8th Floor 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Who: * Men who were wrongfully convicted because of erroneous eyewitness identification: Michael Evans, 27 years in prison because of false identification; Oscar Walden Jr., 13 years in prison because of false identification; Alejandro Dominguez, 12 years in prison because of false identification

departments involved -- Chicago, Joliet, Evanston and Illinois -- to turn over the underlying data from the taxpayer funded report.
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