Sentences with phrase «eyewitness identification evidence»

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

We accept both DNA and non-DNA based innocence claims, with special attention to cases involving eyewitness identification evidence, flawed or invalidated forensic science testimony, and false confessions.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the defendant's conviction, choosing not to adopt a presumption of admissibility for expert testimony on eyewitness identification evidence.

He worked in the Special Assault Unit and Violent Crime Unit where he handled serious felony cases involving high - risk victims including sexual assaults and violent crimes, and was appointed to the Eyewitness Review Group responsible to analyze legal and scientific developments in eyewitness identification evidence.

Not exact matches

In the majority of cases where DNA evidence has exonerated someone wrongly convicted, the initial eyewitness identifications were made with low confidence, not high confidence, Wixted says.

And when the police had ample corroborating evidence against the suspects, the rate of positive identification by confident eyewitnesses shot up to 90 %, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jurisdictions in the United States are increasingly adopting these kinds of evidence - based eyewitness identification procedures, and yet improvements remain needed.

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.»

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project spent thousands of hours on the case, which they called a prime example of the problems with eyewitness identification not corroborated by other evidence.

The eyewitness identification may be the only real evidence linking a defendant to a crime.

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In a case where the primary evidence against the defendant is the identification of an eyewitness, a defendant should be permitted to present expert testimony on the reliability of eyewitness identification, whether or not there is additional corroborative evidence that could weigh in favor of guilt.

A new trial based on newly discovered evidence should not be denied solely because other evidence in the case includes a confession and / or eyewitness identification.

Explicitly citing the Innocence Network Brief, the Court held that Oregon's previous standard for the admissibility of eyewitness identifications (i.e. the Classen test) was «insufficient to ensure that unreliable evidence will be excluded» (24).

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.

Due to the inherant unreliablity of eyewitness identification, Judges are required to give special instructions to juries when they are considering identification evidence.

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

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.

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.