PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Police Lineup, Eyewitness Identification
2 Jan 2019
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The men were all showed at the same time, which made thompson pick the person that the closest similarities to the perpetrator in relation to the other men in the lineup. There were a couple of days that went by before the police line-up occurred. The real perpetrator was not part of either the photo lineup or the physical lineup. This led jennifer to assume that one of the men that was presented to her had to be her rapist: you are detective gaulden investigating the sexual assault of jennifer thompson. Knowing what you know about police lineup procedures, describe how you would have conducted the police lineup in this case (format, instructions, etc. In this case, the first thing that i would do is to tell her to tell me everything that she can remember about what happened and to describe the suspect.
