Eyewitness ID
Are Police Lineups Always Fair? See for Yourself
Eyewitness Evidence in the Courts CLE
Tuesday, August 21, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Duke Law School, Room 3043 Eyewitness testimony can be incredibly powerful in court. “There is almost nothing more convincing,” Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote in a 1981 dissent, “than a live human being who takes the stand, points a finger at the defendant, and says, ‘That’s the one!’” However, …
Robert Jones’ decades in prison point to ‘tragedy’ of eyewitness misidentifications: expert (LA)
Study on Collaborative Eyewitnesses Reveals ‘Category Clustering’ May Improve Recall
Why suspects may ‘look alike’ to eyewitness
Why an eyewitness account alone shouldn’t send anyone to prison
Why You Can’t Trust Yourself to Match Photos of Strangers’ Faces
When a Witness Confronts the Accused: Is a Courtroom I.D. Fair?
Study: Men, Women Equal at Recognizing Faces
The Face You Will Forget: The Science of Eyewitness Identification
The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis
Eyewitness Confidence Can Predict Accuracy of Identifications, Researchers Find
The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis
John T. Wixted and Gary L. Wells published this article in Mar. 2017 finding that eyewitness confidence and accuracy are strongly related in pristine lineup conditions. Where lineup conditions are non-pristine, accuracy of even a high confidence suspect ID is seriously compromised. Pristine line-up procedures include using only one suspect per lineup; the suspect should …
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Expert Testimony about Eyewitness Identification
Jeff Welty’s Dec. 5, 2016 blog post contains relevant case cites and discussion of the topic of eyewitness identification expert testimony.