A mock prisoner of war camp at Fort Bragg leads to some interesting research about eyewitness testimony. The study, by Yale and Navy researchers, suggests eyewitness testimony is not very reliable. It ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Nobody’s perfect, and everyone makes mistakes — including eyewitnesses to crimes. The difference for eyewitnesses, though, is that those mistakes can cost innocent people their ...
It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Eyewitness memory has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, as organizations such as the Innocence Project suggest it was a key piece of information in as many as 75% of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to extend constitutional safeguards against the use of some eyewitness testimony at criminal trials, despite concerns that eyewitness ...
DENVER - When identifying a suspect involved in a crime, the experts say eyewitnesses don't always see what they think they see. In fact, investigators say most of us don't pay close attention at all ...
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that defendants can use expert witnesses to explain the potential flaws in eyewitness identification. This decision reversed a Boone County man's conviction for indecent ...