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==Procedures for Challenging Identification Procedures==
 
==Procedures for Challenging Identification Procedures==
In order to challenge an identification procedure in a common law system, the lawyer should request a hearing to suppress the identification as unnecessarily suggestive("Wade Hearing"). Defendant may have to testify as such a hearing to establish the facts surrounding the original identification. In the United States these statements cannot generally be used at the later trial unless the defendant opens the door on direct or cross-examination.
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In order to challenge an identification procedure in a common law system, the lawyer should request a hearing to suppress the identification as unnecessarily suggestive (known as a "Wade Hearing"). A defendant may have to testify at such a hearing to establish the facts surrounding the original identification. In the United States these statements generally cannot be used at the later trial unless the defendant opens the door to inclusion on direct or cross-examination.
  
 
==Showup==
 
==Showup==

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