More extensive training for criminal investigators who collect eyewitness identification may be on the horizon.
A house committee is making its final revisions to a bill that will require law enforcement agencies to standardize the way they collect eyewitness evidence.
Current procedures are under scrutiny after seven Georgia men have been exonerated from false rape convictions based on eyewitness testimony.
Aimee Maxwell with the Georgia Innocence Project spoke to the committee about the high cost of false convictions, especially when compensating exonerees.
“First off it’s a cost to society to leave them in prison, every single day that costs us, and then Clarence Harrison, they gave him a million dollars for the time he spent in. But probably more importantly, the societal cost. We leave the right person on the street to hurt people.”
Lawmakers estimate the cost of reform at 20 to 40 thousand dollars.
A house committee is making its final revisions to a bill that will require law enforcement agencies to standardize the way they collect eyewitness evidence.
Current procedures are under scrutiny after seven Georgia men have been exonerated from false rape convictions based on eyewitness testimony.
Aimee Maxwell with the Georgia Innocence Project spoke to the committee about the high cost of false convictions, especially when compensating exonerees.
“First off it’s a cost to society to leave them in prison, every single day that costs us, and then Clarence Harrison, they gave him a million dollars for the time he spent in. But probably more importantly, the societal cost. We leave the right person on the street to hurt people.”
Lawmakers estimate the cost of reform at 20 to 40 thousand dollars.
