SB 162 Summary

• Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt written eyewitness identification procedures by January 1, 2014, including use of blind administrators, sequential presentation of lineup members, minimum of five fillers, and video recording requirements where practicable.

• Establishes pretrial hearing procedures for motions to suppress eyewitness identification evidence, with defendants bearing initial burden to show suggestiveness and state then proving reliability.

• Mandates recording of custodial interrogations for murder, assault, robbery, rape, kidnapping, child abuse, and related felonies; creates presumption that unrecorded statements are inadmissible unless exceptions apply.

• Requires disclosure to defense of all consideration promised to in-custody informants, their criminal history, prior testimony records, and creates statewide registry of in-custody informants maintained by the attorney general.

• Expands DNA testing procedures for death row inmates to include aggravating circumstances and allows post-conviction DNA testing when technology unavailable at trial; requires preservation of biological evidence and establishment of guidelines for evidence collection and laboratory procedures.