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

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

A federal appeals court this week reinstated the murder conviction against Thomas Clardy, who was released from prison in 2023. A Nashville jury in 2007 convicted Clardy of murder and sentenced him to ...

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 ...

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 ...