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**dodadaxia** · 07-25-2012, 08:00 AM

Even in this case it's not one woman giving evidence but two of a similar act at the same party, neither of whom appears to have known the other.

Of course all you twit laymen are missing the real problem in the case, the photo identification with no other corroboration. If combined with less than stellar procedure for the photo line up, and this "police showed them a photo of the Cowboys basketball team" if accurate, indicates piss poor procedure, generates a large majority of false convictions. Damn near every false conviction uncovered in Texas was made this way, and a large portion of those rape and sexual assault cases. A state commission has been cracking down on unreliable evidence procedure such as this for a few years.

the ID procedure is not unsound if it was known that basketball players from that team were at the party-and he was at the party, he seems to admit that. There's no express admission of that in the article but he did give a statement to police that he didn't know what happened in the basement where this allegedly occurred. Most likely that's the case because he admitted to being at the party itself but denied being in the basement.

07-25-2012, 08:00 AM	#12
dodadaxia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 387 Senior Member	Even in this case it's not one woman giving evidence but two of a similar act at the same party, neither of whom appears to have known the other. Of course all you twit laymen are missing the real problem in the case, the photo identification with no other corroboration. If combined with less than stellar procedure for the photo line up, and this "police showed them a photo of the Cowboys basketball team" if accurate, indicates piss poor procedure, generates a large majority of false convictions. Damn near every false conviction uncovered in Texas was made this way, and a large portion of those rape and sexual assault cases. A state commission has been cracking down on unreliable evidence procedure such as this for a few years. the ID procedure is not unsound if it was known that basketball players from that team were at the party-and he was at the party, he seems to admit that. There's no express admission of that in the article but he did give a statement to police that he didn't know what happened in the basement where this allegedly occurred. Most likely that's the case because he admitted to being at the party itself but denied being in the basement.
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