The National Academy of Sciences released a groundbreaking reportThursday that provides strong scientific confirmation and explanation of what we've long known about the reliability of eyewitness ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are the nation's pre-eminent source of high-quality, objective advice on science, engineering, and health matters. Top experts participate ...

Eyewitness identification can be convincing, but is it reliable? More than 75,000 prosecutions every year are based entirely on eyewitness identification. Some of those identifications are erroneous.

Eyewitness misidentifications have long been a source of wrongful convictions, casting doubt on the reliability of memory in ...

$1.4 million grant to fund research into preventing misidentifications ...

eyewitness identifications are less reliable as more time elapses between the incident and the identification, and identifications that result from police suggestiveness are often unreliable.

"Eyewitness identification evidence is unique," responded lawyer Richard Guerriero. ... urging the high court to leave the question of eyewitness reliability generally to a jury.

State court to consider eyewitness ID cases Eyewitness identifications not always reliable, lawyers say ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Nobody’s perfect, and everyone makes mistakes — including eyewitnesses to crimes. The difference for eyewitnesses, though, is that those mistakes can cost innocent people ...

Until now, Connecticut law on expert testimony and eyewitness identification had been guided by two state Supreme Court precedents holding that jurors are best positioned to weigh the reliability ...