Eyewitness identification can be one of the more powerful forms of evidence in trials, but it can also be one of the least accurate. WGBH's Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern ...

In this file photo, Sen. David Haley, a Kansas City Democrat, testifies during a Senate committee hearing on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, at the Statehouse in Topeka. Haley recently introduced a bill that ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state’s highest, enjoys a storied place in the annals of progressive legal thought. Among its many notable achievements, the SJC laid the groundwork ...

Nationwide, more than 70 percent of wrongful convictions in criminal cases were tied to misidentification by eyewitnesses. In Oklahoma, that’s the case in about 30 percent of such cases. On Monday, ...

UPDATE (5/7/2025): Senate Bill 141 was signed into law by Governor Mike Braun on May 1. (WXIN/WTTV) — When police roll up on a crime scene, the first people they seek out are eyewitnesses to explain ...

Wrongful convictions plague California’s criminal justice system, and pretty much all participants and observers agree on the leading cause: faulty testimony from eyewitnesses. Police line up the ...

A Minnesota man was set free Monday after spending nearly two decades in prison for a wrongful murder conviction, officials said. Hennepin County Judge William Koch signed an order Monday vacating the ...

The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to extend constitutional safeguards against the use of some eyewitness testimony at criminal trials, despite concerns that eyewitness identification plays a key ...

The Kansas City Police Department has implemented eyewitness identification procedures that it says will help prevent misidentifications and wrongful convictions. Members of the police board that ...

Eyewitnesses to crimes are called upon to identify the offender, but they sometimes finger the wrong person because they feel they have to make an identification no matter what, says an Iowa State ...

To the rhetorical question “Eyewitness Testimony is Unreliable…Or Is It?” posed in a recent Marshall Project headline, we answer with a resounding yes. More than 70% of the nation’s 333 people proven ...