HB 1209

Abstract

Prohibition on use of show-up identificationby law-enforcement officers. Prohibits the use of a show-up identificationby any law-enforcement officer. The bill defines a "show-up identification"as an identification procedure in which an eyewitness is presentedwith a single suspect or single photograph of a suspect for the purposeof determining whether the eyewitness identifies such suspect as the perpetrator. The bill provides that no evidence discovered or obtainedas the result of a show-up identification shall be admissible inany trial, hearing, or other proceeding. The bill also requires thewritten policy and procedures for conducting in-person and photographiclineups established by Department of State Police and each localpolice department and sheriff's office to include a prohibition onthe use of a show-up identification.