In the Texas criminal justice system, eyewitness misidentification is by far the leading cause of wrongful conviction – faulty eyewitness ID was implicated in 86% of Texas DNA exoneration cases. Two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two California legislators recently announced a bill that would set statewide standards for eyewitness identification in order to help prevent innocent people from being convicted of crimes. Gay state ...

We've all seen that electrifying moment on TV or at the movies. In a packed, expectant courtroom, a witness with a quavering voice points a finger at the defendant and declares: "That's him there - ...

Of the 317 people wrongly convicted in the U.S. and proven innocent by DNA, eyewitness misidentification was the single greatest cause, playing a role in 72 percent of the cases, says the Innocence ...