Georgia law enforcement officials are warning lawmakers it’s a bad idea to pass a law mandating how police must conduct eyewitness identifications. A House panel is weighing whether to create rules governing police lineups. The move comes after six men in Georgia who went to prison on the strength of eyewitness IDs were recently exonerated through post-conviction DNA analysis. Today the police chief of LaGrange testified that law enforcement, not lawmakers, should study the issue and come up with guidelines.
