Oct. 14 – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Professor Timothy O’Neill authored column:
Like the drip-drip-drip of a faulty faucet, last month produced yet another reversal of a murder conviction based on problems with eyewitness identifications.
There has been so much written about serious flaws in eyewitness identification procedures that you may think you have heard it all. But on Aug. 24, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued what is probably the most significant eyewitness identification decision ever produced by an American court. The opinion runs a daunting 134 pages. But no one even remotely connected to the criminal justice system can afford not to carefully read State v. Larry R. Henderson. 2011 N.J. LEXIS 927.
