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Eyewitness Identification
49 published works
EvidenceProf Blog
Can I Get A(n Eye) Witness: 60 Minutes Story Exposes Problems With Eyewitness IDs
By Colin Miller
Those of you who watched 60 Minutes last night saw the interesting story, Eyewitness: How Accurate is Visual Memory? And the answer is, "Not very." The story detailed how Jennifer…
Litigation & Trial
“100 percent sure” Witness Was Wrong — Always Question Everyone
Tragic: Michele Mallin said she was "100 percent sure" when she identified Timothy Brian Cole as the man who raped her. Her resolve never wavered, Ms. Mallin said, until she…
EvidenceProf Blog
Fargo: North Dakota Case Reveals That Few Identifications Are Deemed Unnecessarily Or Impermissibly Suggestive
By Colin Miller
A case from North Dakota reveals that its courts do not necessarily deem eyewitness identifications inadmissible even when they are made while the defendant is handcuffed and surrounded by uniformed…
EvidenceProf Blog
Article of Interest: Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson’s Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?: Reconsidering Uncorroborated Eyewitness Identification Testimony
By Colin Miller
I highly recommend Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?: Reconsidering Uncorroborated Eyewitness Identification Testimony, the new article by University of Houston Law Center Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson, which will be published in…
EvidenceProf Blog
Do We All Look Alike to You?: African-American Man Convicted Despite Misidentifications
By Colin Miller
On Tuesday, a Knox County Criminal Court jury found Doug Glenn Flack guilty of assaulting Tenisha Bright by punching her in the face in the parking garage outside a movie…
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
Trained’ Police Officer No Better Than ‘Regular Guy’ at Eyewitness ID
The Eyewitness ID Reform Blog reports on a Federal Court’s ‘misunderstanding’ of Eyewitness identification ‘science’ in the denial of an expert witness’ opinion. Citing the decision: Officer Catterton served as a…
CrimProf Blog
CrimProf Scheck: We Are On Verge of Historic Reforms in Eyewitness Identification Procedures
Cardoza CrimProf Barry Scheck, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, writes this month's column in the magazine Champion: "Soon, the single greatestcause of the conviction of the…
CrimProf Blog
Sequential Line Up Experiment in Illinois
Police Departments in Chicago, Evanston and Joliet are experimenting with the sequential line up protocol recommended by some social scientists to improve the accuracy of identification procedures. Line-ups will be…
CrimProf Blog
Gary Wells Speaking on Eyewitness Identification at Yale Tuesday
Yale Law School announces: "Gary Wells, professor of psychology and distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University, will give a talk titled "Eyewitness Identification and Wrongful…