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police lineup
In police lineups, who are the other [people]... the ones who aren't the accused criminal?
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Police line ups, at least in my part of the world, are no longer done in person. They are done by showing someone a series of five to seven photographs.
By and large, those photographs come from the files the police keep on people who have committed a variety of crimes. A line-up is typically used to test the witnesses reliability and memory, not the actually pick out the criminal. The police already know who they expect to accuse of the crime, they are simply looking for the witness to agree.
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Usually just random other people who might match the description of the subject.
The general purpose of a police line up is not to identify someone because the police aren't sure, its to prove that the victim CAN Identify the perp for court purposes.
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