The police are reluctant to discuss how they conduct lineups or use photo arrays.

"We don't comment on our procedures for lineups or photo arrays because it would contaminate the process."

Build a photo array for the witness.

An off-duty Newark police officer heard the gunshots, saw a man fleeing with a gun and later picked the suspect out of a photo array.

The third witness picked the suspect out of a photo array, but immediately began to waver when asked about testifying in open court.

She identified only one person with 100 percent certainty in two photo arrays as having been present at the team party.

Mr. Newton, who had a criminal record from a fight as a teenager, was picked out of a photo array, then identified by the victim.

So the police compiled a photo array and showed it to four of the bouncers.

That state's attorney general ordered police departments to drop the classic lineup or photo array, in which witnesses were asked to choose among six suspects.

This same woman later picked out the picture of Scott Johnson in a photo array.