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2018 Georgia Code 17-20-2 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 17-20-2 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 17-20-2

TITLE 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Section 20. Identification Procedures for Live Lineups, Photo Lineups, and Showups, 17-20-1 through 17-20-3.

ARTICLE 2 MISDEMEANOR CASES

17-20-2. Written policies for live line-ups, photo line-ups, and showups.

  1. Not later than July 1, 2016, any law enforcement agency that conducts live lineups, photo lineups, or showups shall adopt written policies for using such procedures for the purpose of determining whether a witness identifies someone as the perpetrator of an alleged crime.
  2. Live lineup, photo lineup, and showup policies shall include the following:
    1. With respect to a live lineup, having an individual who does not know the identity of the suspect conduct the live procedure;
    2. With respect to a photo lineup, having an individual:
      1. Who does not know the identity of the suspect conduct the photo lineup; or
      2. Who knows the identity of the suspect use a procedure in which photographs are placed in folders, randomly shuffled, and then presented to the witness so that the individual conducting such procedure cannot physically see which photograph is being viewed by the witness until the procedure is complete;
    3. Providing the witness with instruction that the perpetrator of the alleged crime may or may not be present in the live lineup or photo lineup;
    4. Composing a live lineup or photo lineup so that the fillers generally resemble the witness's description of the perpetrator of the alleged crime;
    5. Using a minimum of four fillers in a live lineup and a minimum of five fillers in a photo lineup; and
    6. Having the individual conducting a live lineup, photo lineup, or showup seek and document, at the time that an identification of an individual or photograph is made, and in the witness's own words without necessarily referencing a numeric or percentage standard, a clear statement from the witness as to the witness's confidence level that the individual or photograph identified is the individual or photograph of the individual who committed the alleged crime.
  3. All law enforcement agency written policies adopted pursuant to this Code section shall be subject to public disclosure and inspection notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50.

(Code 1981, §17-20-2, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 1046, § 4/SB 94.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Criminal defendant's age or height as factor in determination of whether circumstances of witness's identification of defendant in photographic array shown by police to witness were impermissibly suggestive as matter of federal constitutional law, 102 A.L.R.6th 365.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 17-20-2 From Courtlistener.com

Total Results: 11

Mitchell v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2025-01-28

Citation: 911 S.E.2d 607, 320 Ga. 673

Snippet: room to look at them — did not comply with OCGA § 17-20-2, but he concedes the failure to follow the statutory

Feder v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2024-05-14

Citation: 901 S.E.2d 561, 319 Ga. 66

Snippet: compromise, or lenity.” Turner v. State, 283 Ga. 17, 20 (2) (655 SE2d 589) (2008) (citation and punctuation

Harris v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2022-05-03

Citation: 872 S.E.2d 732, 313 Ga. 653

Snippet: lineup was not 7 Kirkland cites OCGA § 17-20-2 (b) (2) (B) for this proposition. This statute

Anderson v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2022-02-15

Citation: 869 S.E.2d 401, 313 Ga. 178

Snippet: to comport with guidelines set forth in OCGA § 17-20-2, which requires law enforcement agencies to establish

Kirkland v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2021-02-01

Citation: 854 S.E.2d 508, 310 Ga. 738

Snippet: who know the identity of a suspect, see OCGA § 17- 20-2 (b) (2) (B).4 And, even in those situations, failure

Roseboro v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2020-04-06

Citation: 841 S.E.2d 706, 308 Ga. 428

Snippet: noncompliance with OCGA § 17-20-2,7 a Georgia statute that 7 OCGA § 17-20-2 (a) and (b) provide:

McELRATH v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2020-02-28

Citation: 839 S.E.2d 573, 308 Ga. 104

Snippet: or lenity. . . .” Turner v. State, 283 Ga. 17, 20 (2) (655 SE2d 589) (2008).

State v. Lane

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2020-02-10

Citation: 838 S.E.2d 808, 308 Ga. 10

Snippet: SE2d 790) (2006)*; Ellis v. State, 282 Ga. App. 17, 20 (2) (637 SE2d 729) (2006)*; Fields v. State, 281

Davis v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2014-11-03

Citation: 296 Ga. 126, 765 S.E.2d 336, 2014 Ga. LEXIS 886

Snippet: inconsistent. See Turner v. State, 283 Ga. 17, 20 (2) (655 SE2d 589) (2008). As for the jury question

Hubbard v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2009-09-28

Citation: 683 S.E.2d 602, 285 Ga. 791, 2009 Fulton County D. Rep. 3074, 2009 Ga. LEXIS 489

Snippet: case. As we found in Mosely v. State, 269 Ga. 17, 20(2), 495 S.E.2d 9 (1998), a case *605 in which the

Dryden v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2009-04-28

Citation: 676 S.E.2d 175, 285 Ga. 281, 2009 Fulton County D. Rep. 1526, 2009 Ga. LEXIS 141

Snippet: compromise, or lenity. . . ." Turner v. State, 283 Ga. 17, 20(2), 655 S.E.2d 589 (2008) (punctuation omitted)