Sentences with phrase «as eyewitness identification»

For over fifteen years, she has had continuous funding (over $ 1.7 million) from the National Science Foundation for her research applying social psychology to the investigation of legal issues such as eyewitness identification, jury decision - making, and scientific evidence.

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Because individuals with certain psychological disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder and substance dependence, are at high risk for criminal involvement, they are also at heightened risk for false identifications by eyewitnesses.

Almost exactly 10 years ago, the Innocence Project informed the legal community that «in 66 of the 216 wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing, cross-racial eyewitness identification was used as evidence to convict an innocent defendant.»

Perry appealed his conviction, claiming that the federal and New Hampshire constitutions prevented the use of eyewitness testimony when police have manipulated the identification procedures making it more likely that the eyewitness would select a specific person as a suspect.

The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination.

When reviewing convictions, we focus on the forms of weak evidence which have been proven unreliable over the past few decades — such as mistaken eyewitness identifications, false confessions, and bad forensics.

The Courts have come to recognize eyewitness identification evidence as inherently unreliable.

Leighton Hay was accused as one of the shooters based on an eyewitness» identification of him and circumstantial evidence.

She regularly serves as a consultant on jury selection and change of venue motions and as an expert witness in cases involving eyewitness identification.