Sentences with phrase «eyewitness identification issues»

The standard instruction used in eyewitness cases is based upon cases that precede the social science research informing eyewitness identification issues today.

The Court could decide that Pennsylvania should join the other 48 states (and every federal district) in allowing experts on eyewitness identification issues to testify at trial.

Not exact matches

The examination of this issues derives from a series of studies conducted that document the high error rates connected with eyewitness identification.

But lost in the ruling is the fact that the Court recognized many of the issues inherent in eyewitness identifications.

The defence in some cases might be based entirely on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or eyewitness identification problems or intoxication issues or other myriad factors unaffected by the particular name of the charge or section number of the Criminal Code or Controlled Drugs and Substances Act under which the charge was laid.

Justice Goodwin Liu, joined by Justice Leondra Kruger, issued a notable dissent proposing new standards for addressing problematic eyewitness identifications and arguing that Reed had shown that prosecutors discriminatorily exercised their discretionary strikes to exclude African Americans from serving on the jury.

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.