Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new law enforcement training protocols, standardized ...

Mistaken eyewitness identifications have been a contributing factor in approximately 70% of wrongful convictions.

30 years of strong social science research has proven that eyewitness identification is often unreliable. Research shows that the human mind is not like a tape recorder; we neither record events ...

Daedalus, Vol. 147, No. 4, Science & The Legal System (Fall 2018), pp. 90-98 (9 pages) Inaccurate eyewitness testimony is a leading cause of wrongful convictions. As early as 1967, the U.S. Supreme ...

Nationally, 28% of all exonerations involve mistaken eyewitness identification. Social science research demonstrates that human memory is highly imperfect and fragile. When people experience a ...

When police roll up on a crime scene, the first people they seek out are eyewitnesses to explain what, and who, they saw. But ...

Clardy’s lawyer failed to present an eyewitness identification expert at trial despite the fact “eyewitness identification was effectively the only evidence the government had against Clardy ...

A Hoosier mother’s grief quickly turned to anger as she told FOX59/CBS4 that an impossible decision regarding her pregnancy was made more unbearable due to Indiana’s current abortion laws.