Nationally, 28% of all exonerations involve mistaken eyewitness identification. Social science research demonstrates that human memory is highly imperfect and fragile. When people experience a ...

Mistaken eyewitness identifications have been a contributing factor in approximately 70% of wrongful convictions in the U.S. overturned by post-conviction DNA evidence. When we look more ...

30 years of strong social science research has proven that eyewitness identification is often unreliable. Research shows that the human mind is not like a tape recorder; we neither record events ...

Since 1989, Indiana has seen at least 47 people wrongfully incarcerated, a third of which officials estimate is due to mistaken eyewitness identification, according to the National Registry of ...

A third of those cases reportedly relied on faulty eyewitness identifications. “You just kind of have to step back and let that number sink in because I find that shocking,” said Professor ...

Koblentz also noted that a majority of wrongful convictions are the result of mistaken eyewitness identification. The hearing will resume this morning with the state calling its own expert witness.