For another, it is very hard to identify defendants of different races who are otherwise in very similar situations, because every crime is different.
If they sit in a criminal court, they are increasingly seeing homicide and sexual assault cases where DNA evidence is used to identify defendants.
In dozens of other cases, prosecutors asked that they be dismissed when arresting officers could not identify defendants or testify about their actions.
They will have to "identify defendants, which defendants, which brakes, and what their exposure levels were," said Mr. Twerski, who said he had written a legal brief in favor of an asbestos defendant.
On Beauvoir Avenue, which leads to Overlook Hospital, a centerpiece of the town, one resident, Suzette Francis, who is black, said her son had heard rumors that, because the two identified defendants were black, black students might be attacked when school reopens.
Now, witnesses cannot identify defendants in court unless they knew the defendant before witnessing the crime or they have successfully picked the defendant from a non-suggestive photo array or lineup before the trial.
The report also recommended expanding an existing county program that places social workers in the courts to identify defendants who might be candidates for diversion, putting a pre-trial release program in place for such defendants, and placing more social workers in the jails.
"Silvercorp believes that the action to date has succeeded in identifying the defendants that were initially anonymous and exposing certain of their activities," it said in a statement.
HuffPost is not identifying the defendants because they have been charged in juvenile court.
In Massachusetts in 2014, the state's top court largely banned the practice for cases in which witnesses had been anything short of unequivocal in identifying the defendant before the trial.
