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Challenges with suspect lineups continue across Virginia. According to the Richmond Times Dispatch of the 144 Virginia police agencies, only nine had implemented the Virginia Department of Criminal Services model policy and nearly nine of 10 still relied on outdated policies to some extent. The new model policy adopted  two years ago by a few agencies was designed to reduce the misidentification of suspects by witnesses.

Mistakes made by victims and eyewitness identifying suspects either in pictures or in-person sent to prison all but three of 16 wrongly convicted men. Those men were later proven innocent by DNA in rape and murder cases.

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Suspect Lineups Still Flawed in Virginia  was originally published on kissrichmond.com