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

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 ...

Over 25% of that number of over 3,600 wrongful convictions involved erroneous eyewitness identification. It was a major factor in the erroneous eyewitness identification.” Gurule’ said that ...