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 ...

Daedalus, Vol. 147, No. 4, Science & The Legal System (Fall 2018), pp. 90-98 (9 pages) Inaccurate eyewitness testimony is a leading cause of wrongful convictions. As early as 1967, the U.S. Supreme ...

When police roll up on a crime scene, the first people they seek out are eyewitnesses to explain what, and who, they saw. But ...

The Innocence Project used to track all DNA exonerations throughout the country. An exoneration clears a convicted person of ...