[USA] Police Lineups: Making Eyewitness Identification More Reliable
NIJ Journal No. 258 • October 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/258/police-lineups.html
Beth Schuster
"In 1981, 22-year-old Jerry Miller was arrested and charged with robbing, kidnapping, and raping a woman. Two witnesses identified Miller, in a police lineup, as the perpetrator. The victim provided a more tentative identification at trial. Miller was convicted, served 24 years in prison, and was released on parole as a registered sex offender, requiring him to wear an electronic monitoring device at all times. Recent DNA tests, however, tell a different story: Semen taken from the victim’s clothing did not come from Miller. In fact, when a DNA profile was created from the semen and entered into the FBI’s convicted offender database, another man was implicated in the crime. On April 23, 2007, Miller became the 200th person in the United States to be exonerated through DNA evidence."