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 ...

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, ...

More than 20 years ago, acclaimed novelist Alice Sebold wrote a memoir that chronicled in chilling detail how she, a white woman, was raped by a Black man while in college in the 1980s. Recently, the ...

A new Florida law requires administrators of police lineups to be unaware of the suspect’s identity when quizzing eyewitnesses. Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday signed the Eyewitness Identification Reform ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eyewitness misidentification put innocent Florida man Wilton Dedge in prison for 22 years. It is the cause of wrongful conviction for nearly half of his fellow state exonerees. Starting Oct. 1, two ...

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 ...

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 ...

In November, Wilbert Jones was released from prison after more than 45 years behind bars, when a Baton Rouge judge overruled his 1974 rape conviction, determining that crucial evidence had been ...