CEDAR RAPIDS — An Arkansas psychology professor testified Friday there has been research and several studies on the reliability of eyewitness identification, depending on variety of circumstances, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – The American legal system offers few moments as dramatic as an eyewitness to a crime pointing his finger across a crowded courtroom at a defendant. The problem is that decades of ...

It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...

A mock prisoner of war camp at Fort Bragg leads to some interesting research about eyewitness testimony. The study, by Yale and Navy researchers, suggests eyewitness testimony is not very reliable. It ...

Eyewitness memory has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, as organizations such as the Innocence Project suggest it was a key piece of information in as many as 75 percent of wrongful ...

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 ...

"It would be both appropriate and useful for the courts to handle eyewitness identifications in the same manner they handle physical trace evidence and scientific evidence, by placing at least an ...

Can a child be a reliable eyewitness? In today’s Academic Minute, Clemson University’s Ben Cotterill examines this question. Cotterill is a lecturer at Clemson University and author of Are Children ...

Eyewitness memory has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, as organizations such as the Innocence Project suggest it was a key piece of information in as many as 75% of wrongful convictions ...