"It would be both appropriate and useful for the courts to handle eyewitness identifications in the same manner they handle physical trace evidence and scientific evidence, by placing at least an ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — An Arkansas psychology professor testified Friday there has been research and several studies on the reliability of eyewitness identification, depending on variety of circumstances, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to extend constitutional safeguards against the use of some eyewitness testimony at criminal trials, despite concerns that eyewitness ...

Charles Don Flores' mugshot bears little resemblance to a sketch based on an eyewitness's description given shortly after the murder. Charles Don Flores is on death row in Texas, where he was ...

Nobody’s perfect, and everyone makes mistakes—including eyewitnesses to crimes. The difference for eyewitnesses, though, is that those mistakes could cost an innocent person their freedom. That’s one ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A man’s plea to prevent eyewitness evidence from being used at his murder trial has been dismissed. After 16 months, 50 pages of arguments and two hearings, a Franklin County ...

Eyewitness identification remains a pivotal yet complex facet of criminal investigations and legal proceedings. Research in this area spans from the cognitive processes underlying face recognition to ...

Many individuals have been falsely accused of a crime based, at least in part, on confident eyewitness identifications, a fact that has bred distrust of eyewitness confidence in the U.S. legal system.

The Supreme Court on Monday (November 17) acquitted a man accused of murdering an elderly man during a robbery. The Court discarded the sole eyewitness's identification of the accused, made ...