“A LIVING LIE”
IDENTIFICATION PARADE PROTEST BY COUNSEL PHOTOG RAPES SHOWN (Por Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. After a detective had admitted that he had shown photographs o£ the accused and others to several witnesses before they were asked to attend an identification parade in which the accused was placed, Mr. J. J. Sullivan defending a labourer who was charged witl) the theft of two suits, strongly attacked this procedure as unfair in the Supreme Court.
There were, alternative charges of receiving stolen property against the accused, James Davidson Ireland.
Counsel said it was “a living lie” to stage a parade after witnesses had been shown a photograph of the person suspected. Mr. Justice Fair said that the principal rule of practice was that if the police must show photographs of the persons suspected they should show a number of photographs of different persons and allow the person consulted to pick one out. It was not legitimate to present one photograph and ask whether that was the person.
The jury found the accused not guilty of theft, but guilty on both counts of receiving. The accused was remanded for sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19551, 5 February 1938, Page 6
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