Tory Lanez’s lawyer, Jose Baez, has now suggested that “mistaken eyewitness identifications” is what led to his client’s guilty conviction in the 2019 shooting case of Megan Thee Stallion ...

BOSTON (AP) – Zachary Sevigny was slashed with a box cutter by a stranger outside a convenience store in 2011. Neither Sevigny nor his friend identified Jeremy Gomes as the attacker when shown ...

CBS/AP (CBS) -- Mistaken eyewitness identifications are the principal reason for more than 75% of mistaken convictions, says Dr. Robert Shomer.. Shomer, an eyewitness expert on this weekends show ...

A state commission on reforming the criminal justice system proposed significant changes Thursday in the use of eyewitness identification in California courts, citing problems, particularly with ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared resistant Wednesday to increasing constitutional safeguards against the use of some eyewitness testimony at criminal trials, despite mountin… ...

Eyewitness misidentification is one of the most common factors in cases of wrongful conviction. Nationally, 28% of all exonerations involve mistaken eyewitness identification. Social science research ...

False witness: Mistaken eyewitness testimony is far too common in wrongful imprisonment cases. ... one of the most serious and widespread problems is mistaken or flawed eyewitness identification.

State court to consider eyewitness ID cases Eyewitness identifications not always reliable, lawyers say ...

Kia Stewart, 27, prepares to get a hug from his youngest brother Travis Stewart as Kia walks out of the Orleans Parish Criminal Courthouse a free man after he spent nearly 10 years of a life ...

According to the bill’s analysis, “mistaken eyewitness identification of an innocent person is the leading documented factor in causing mistaken convictions that have been overturned in this ...

State Senator Rodney Ellis wrote in a column this week in The Dallas Morning News that he plans to introduce legislation based on the newspaper's investigation into eyewitness testimony. The News ...

The research, funded in part by a grant from the van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation, began with a goal of gauging law enforcement’s compliance with the eyewitness identification law. The research ...