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New article: Elkins' lawyer questions the use of photo-lineup:
Pate says photo lineups are less reliable when a person from one race is identifying a suspect from another.
"If you have a white person, a Caucasian person trying to identify an African-American teenager, especially, social scientists have done studies and have looked at situations in a controlled environment when they know this is not the right person and yet somebody identifies them," Pate said.
D******** L***, 15, also had a first court appearance.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/lawyer-questions-lineup-used-identify-teens-charge/nW4DY/
BBM, I can actually agree (to some degree) with this point. I am horrible at guessing AA ages. The AAs I know never seem to look as old as they are. It is something I have joked with them about. "black don't crack" my GF told me once. Still makes me chuckle. I agree cross racial identification can be less reliable.
To me though, all of that is smoke and mirrors. I would be more worried about mistaken identification if it weren't for the fact that the sequence of events states that LE questioned DL and he led them to DE. LE then presented a photo lineup including DE and he was picked out.
IMO the odds of West miraculously picking out the photo of the wrong teen, who also happens to have been identified as the shooter by boy charged as his accomplice are slim to none.