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Eyewitness Identification
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EvidenceProf Blog
Utah Rule of Evidence 607 & Eyewitness Identifications
By Colin Miller
Last year, Utah enacted Utah Rule of Evidence 617, which governs eyewitness identifications. The Advisory Committee Note to the Rule states thatThis rule ensures that when called upon, a trial court…
Simple Justice
Altered Photo, Positive ID
It’s almost surprising this hasn’t happened before, but it’s happened now. Tyrone Lamont Allen was a suspect in four bank robberies. Why he was a suspect in the first place…
Simple Justice
Just An Excitable Boy
Years of research, on top of anecdotal experience, conclusively proved the unreliability of eyewitness identification. Yet, when it served a political end, someone at the New York Times thought it…
CAP·impact
UPLR: In Session 016 – SB 923
By Greensheets
By: Hayley Graves Criminal eyewitness identification procedures - say that three times fast - are when a law enforcement officer asks a witness to look at photos or a lineup…
EvidenceProf Blog
Should Courts Allow for the Admission of Pre-Trial Identifications by Witnesses Who Can’t Remember Making Them?
By Colin Miller
The leading cause of wrongful convictions in this country is eyewitness misidentifications. Specifically, "eyewitness misidentification testimony was a factor in 75 percent of post-conviction DNA exoneration cases in the U.S.,…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Professor Valena Beety Featured as Eyewitness Identification Expert on the Undisclosed Podcast
Our always amazing West Virginia College of Law colleague, Valena Beety, Professor of Law and Director of the West Virginia Innocence Project, is featured on the March 16, 2018 Undisclosed podcast,…
Boston Criminal Lawyers Blog
Single-Photograph Identification Procedures “Disfavored” in Massachusetts
By Lefteris K. Travayiakis Esq.
Oftentimes, when police are searching for a suspect of a crime, they will employ an identification procedure. Identification procedures vary, and can include a photographic array; a lineup (as you…
Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
Lawyer Prepare! Challenge Suggestive Lineups.
The Idaho Supreme Court once again points out the importance of challenging line-up identifications whenever the issue arises. Many people do not understand how common such evidence is, or how…
EvidenceProf Blog
2001 Baltimore Murder Trial With Familiar Prosecutor Involved Brady Violation for Failing to Disclose Interview Records
By Colin Miller
Here's a pretty interesting story about a 1998 murder in Baltimore.* It involves the trial of "Kenneth D. Perry, 43, who was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in…
EvidenceProf Blog
Court Denies Missouri Man New Trial Despite Victim’s Daughter Recanting Her Eyewitness Identification
By Colin Miller
According to an article in the Southeast Missourian, A Missouri judge refused to grant freedom to a man convicted of sexually attacking and killing a St. Louis woman more than three…