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

Emphasizing the need for meticulous examination in cases involving unidentified accused, the Supreme Court today (February 4) ...

A federal appeals court this week reinstated the murder conviction against Thomas Clardy, who was released from prison in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Eyewitness identification plays a crucial role in the criminal justice system, but it can be influenced by mistakes and biases,” said study author Thomas J. Nyman, a lecturer in forensic ...

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 ...