Learning Objectives

1. Know the three stages of eyewitness identification and the threats to the accuracy of eyewitness identification at each stage.

2. Appreciate the proposed modifications in the identification process designed to ensure greater accuracy.

3. Define the Wade–Gilbert rule.

4. Appreciate the difference between the right to counsel at preindictment lineups and at postindictment lineups.

5. State the right to counsel at photographic displays and during scientific identification procedures.

6. Know the due process test for identifications.

7. Appreciate the significance of police involvement in suggestive identifications.

8. Compare and contrast the Frye and Daubert tests for the admissibility of scientific evidence.

9. Appreciate the use of DNA in the criminal justice process and the legal arguments in support of the suspicionless collection of DNA evidence.