POLICE METHOD CRITICISED
IDENTIFYING OFFENDERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Nov. 17. , The police method of identifying people suspected of offences was criticised by counsel, judge and jury when a case that rested on identification came before the Supreme Court. The accused was Charles Thomas Lascelles, who was charged with interfering with a little girl in a picture theatre. After comment had been made by counsel, Mr. Justice Stringer said that there was no earthly use in asking either adults or children to make a satisfactory ’ identification unless there was a general resemblance between the people lined up. There was no use, for instance, m putting a Chinese among Europeans. The jury returned a verdict of not gnilty, urging that there should be strict methods of identification in order to prevent mistakes. “We reckon the present method unfair.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 6
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