identity parade

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identity parade (plural identity parades)

  1. (UK, Ireland, law enforcement) A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime.
    Synonyms: identification parade, lineup, police lineup
    • 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear‎[1], London: Heinemann, published 1950, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 61:
      He moved through the circle and sat down on Cost’s left like a criminal taking his place in an identity parade.
    • 1984, Alan Hunter, chapter 6, in The Unhanged Man‎[2], New York: Walker, pages 87–88:
      ‘I deny it, I utterly deny it, my movements were those I’ve given you.’
      ‘Yet you refuse to take part in an identity parade?’

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