Course Description

Nationwide, misidentification of suspects has been an identified factor in numerous wrongful convictions. The database maintained by the Innocence Project has 375 convictions which have been overturned through DNA exoneration. 69% of those wrongful convictions involved misidentification of the suspects. The National Registry of Exonerations tracks DNA and Non-DNA exonerations. They have recorded 2,679 exonerations, of which 759 involved witness misidentification of suspects as a factor in the conviction.

This two-hour class focus on potential implementation of what is known as “the core four” recommendations regarding the eyewitness identification process. These procedures (the core four) have been endorsed by The Innocence Project, The National Academy of Sciences, The American Bar Association, The International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Department of Justice. These recommendations are commonly referred to as “the core four.”

The “Core Four” recommendations which will be addressed are:

  1. Blind Administration. 
  2. Lineup composition. 
  3. Witness Instruction.
  4. Confidence Statements.


This class will also review information regarding possible implementation of the following procedures which have been reported to have a relationship to the accuracy of photo lineup identification procedures.

  1. Sequential presentation of photos in the lineup. 
  2. Videotaping of all administrations of photo lineups.


Instructor(s)

| Special Agent Everett Babcock

Special Agent Everett Babcock began his law enforcement career in 1988, serving as a Patrol Officer, and later as an Investigator for the Sayre Police Department in Sayre Oklahoma. In 1992 Babcock took a position as a District Attorney’s Investigator assigned to the District 2 Drug Task Force in Oklahoma’s Second Judicial District, conducting narcotic investigations in the northwestern part of the state. In 1995, Babcock moved to Missouri and began a career with the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, serving as a Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, Patrol Sergeant, Patrol Captain, Domestic Violence Detective, Homicide Detective, Assault Squad Sergeant, Property Crimes Captain, Homicide Unit Sergeant, and Homicide Unit Captain. Babcock retired from Kansas City Missouri P.D. in February of 2024 after 29 years of service. In March of 2024 Babcock returned to Oklahoma, taking his current position as a Special Agent working for the District Attorney’s Office in Oklahoma’s 22nd Judicial District where he is currently employed. In addition to teaching for the Dolan Consulting Group, Babcock has taught law enforcement classes for the University of Central Missouri, the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, the Missouri Highway Patrol, The International Homicide Investigator’s Association, and the Oklahoma District Attorney’s Association. Babcock holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Missouri. Babcock is currently the Northern Regional Director for the International Homicide Investigator’s Association, and is a member of the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth’s Child Death Review Board. Babcock’s homicide investigations have been profiled on America’s Most Wanted, American Gangster, The First 48, Fatal Attraction and The Killer Next Door.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Before You Start

    • Consent Questions

    • Webinar Handout
  • 2

    Webinar

    • Section 1

    • Section 2