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Eyewitness testimony can hold a lot of weight with jurors. But eyewitnesses aren’t always right, and poor investigative practices can make matters worse.
Memories of events are notoriously unreliable - especially after some time has passed. Experts and police have developed an app to help the general public record evidence when it’s fresh.
Turns out eyewitness testimony is one of the least reliable forms of evidence.
If you believe intoxicated people always give unreliable eyewitness testimonies, think again.
Your memory of an event can be manipulated – and miscarriages of justice can follow.
There’s a concern that images posted on social media run the risk of disrupting the accurate identification of people allegedly involved in a crime.
Would you know if you were being asked a leading question?
Twenty eyewitnesses testified before the grand jury investigating the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. None of these accounts is fully consistent with any other. Moreover, eyewitnesses…
Objective details given by eyewitness testimony are less likely to be distorted than subjective details, a new study has…
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