l9n/ Connecticut

2007 Regular Session

Senate Bill 1240

AN ACT CONCERNING EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on April 5, 2007. The 2007 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To improve the reliability of eyewitness identification by establishing procedures for conducting a police lineup including having a lineup administrator who does not know which person is suspected as the perpetrator, informing the eyewitness that the perpetrator might not be in the lineup and presenting the persons or photographs in a lineup sequentially rather than simultaneously.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Eric D. Coleman

Its course

February 20 to April 5, 2007, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the SenateFeb 20 to Apr 5 · stopped44 days

Judiciary CommitteeFeb 20 to Apr 5 · stopped44 days

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Feb 20 – Apr 5

  1. Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
  2. Heard in Judiciary Committee
All 2 actions, as published