SB 5714 - DIGEST

Creates a work group to adopt model guidelines and develop a training curriculum using evidence-based best practices for law enforcement to maximize the reliability of eyewitness evidence collected during criminal investigations.

Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt and implement a written local protocol for the collection of eyewitness evidence consistent with the model guidelines and submit a copy of the local protocol to the work group.

Creates a work group to adopt model guidelines and develop a training curriculum based on those guidelines to assist prosecuting attorneys in evaluating the reliability of information or testimony offered by an informant before it is used in connection with a criminal proceeding and in determining adequate preliminary disclosures to the defense.

Requires county prosecuting attorneys to adopt and implement a written local protocol for the use of informants consistent with the model guidelines and submit a copy of the local protocol to the work group.

Requires a judge to provide a jury with instructions on exercising caution in evaluating the testimony of an informant.