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 ...

Dozens of people across California have been wrongly convicted of crimes largely because of law enforcement officers’ flawed handling of eyewitness evidence. Courts have found instances of ...

Eyewitnesses make mistakes. Our understanding of how to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications is imperfect and evolving. In the previous chapters, we described law enforcement procedures ...

This article originally ran in the AJC on Dec. 14, 2007. It was reported then by Breakdown reporter Bill Rankin, and is presented here as an illustration of how eyewitness identifications can be ...

A state commission on reforming the criminal justice system proposed significant changes Thursday in the use of eyewitness identification in California courts, citing problems, particularly with cross ...

The accurate identification of the perpetrators of crimes presents a critical psychological problem for law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Much research has shown that the single ...

Ervin Harris, with support from the Innocence Project, seeks to vacate his 1975 rape conviction, citing unreliable eyewitness ...

While we think that the new trial advocated in Justice Albin's dissent is justified here, the majority's opinion also provides new and valuable protections. The New Jersey Supreme Court has issued an ...

In August, the Kansas City Police Department adopted a new eyewitness identification policy. KCPD Capt. Everett Babcock is credited with helping to come up with the policy. Babcock, who holds a master ...

A new study from British researchers has revealed that sleep does not improve memory in an eyewitness. The study titled, “The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications,” was published in the ...

Tory Lanez performs on stage during Wireless Festival 2019 on July 05, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns) *An attorney for Tory Lanez is suggesting that “mistaken eyewitness ...