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Aug 28, 2020 · Augsburg University Professor of Psychology Nancy Steblay believes these crucial questions deserve answers: How reliable is eyewitness identification, and how trustworthy are the law enforcement procedures that collect eyewitness evidence?
May 2, 2018 · To ask whether eyewitness evidence (or DNA evidence or fingerprint evidence) is reliable is to ask whether it is reliable when the evidence is not contaminated, when proper testing procedures are used, and when confidence is taken into account.
Oct 3, 2014 · A new report concludes that the use of eyewitness accounts need tighter control, and among its recommendations is a call for a more scientific approach to how eyewitnesses identify suspects during the classic police lineup.
Feb 10, 2020 · Given that it is still heavily relied upon today because DNA and other forms of definitive evidence remain extremely rare in criminal cases, improving the reliability of eyewitness identification evidence is an important priority to prevent miscarriages of justice.”
Jan 1, 2010 · Given the dangers of mistaken convictions based on faulty eyewitness estimony, how can we minimize such errors? The Innocence Project has proposed legislation to improve the accuracy of...
Apr 30, 2021 · Many of the recommendations arising from eyewitness research have been aimed at reducing misidentifications, and thereby also reducing subsequent miscarriages of justice; an aim arising from evidence that eyewitness testimony is associated with more miscarriages of justice than any other factor (West and Meterko, 2015).
Apr 18, 2024 · That is, at least 80% of experts believed the following statements were reliable enough to testify in court: (a) An eyewitness’s perception and memory for an event may be affected by his or her attitudes and expectations, (b) an eyewitness’s confidence is not a good predictor of his or her identification accuracy, (c) the less time an ...
