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where the innocent sweat and the guilty hide in plain, badly-lit sight.
means A lineup is an arranged row of people or things—suspects displayed for identification, players named before a game, or acts scheduled to perform.
from A plain compound of "line" plus "up," born of the same logic that gives us "line up" as a verb: to arrange in a line. The noun form emerged in American English in the early 20th century, splitting its life between the sporting world (the roster set out before play) and the police station (suspects ranged against a height-marked wall for a witness's nervous eye). "Line" itself traces back through Old English and Latin "linea," a string or thread of flax—so every lineup is, at root, people strung along an invisible thread.
- misidentification
- Eyewitness errors fuel most overturned wrongful convictions
- fillers
- Decoys must resemble the suspect, not the cops
- sequential trick
- Showing faces one-by-one reduces false picks
- music origin
- Festival lineups borrowed the cop-shop word entirely
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