l9n/ Connecticut

2008 Regular Session

House Bill 5832

AN ACT CONCERNING EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary Committee on March 14, 2008. The 2008 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 photographic or live 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 House of Representatives

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Martin M. Looney

    Its course

    March 3 to March 14, 2008, 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 House of RepresentativesMar 3 to Mar 14 · stopped11 days

    Judiciary CommitteeMar 3 to Mar 14 · stopped11 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 House of Representatives Mar 3 – Mar 14

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