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 ...

Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion ...

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 ...

Robert Siegel talks to University of Virginia professor Brandon Garrett about a National Academy of Sciences study looking at 30 years of research... New Recommendations Could Improve Eyewitness ...

I've occasionally had to ID people who have passed bad checks at our store. My problem is that the pictures presented to us for ID very often don't resemble the person who actually came in to the ...