Sentences with phrase «mistaken eyewitness»

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.

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.

One third of these overturned cases rested on the testimony of two or more mistaken eyewitnesses.

«Wrongful Conviction: 50 % of Mistaken Eyewitnesses Certain After Positive Feedback» The role of suggestibility in memory, from PsyBlog Web site.

Not exact matches

Speaking in an interview on Eyewitness News, he said, «I am excited that the government is committing mistakes.

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.

It is stressful for victims and eyewitnesses to identify a perpetrator, and they make mistakes.

However, although a confident eyewitness can make or break a trial, experience shows that mistaken identifications have and do occur and courts have long recognized this.

Ultimately, a successful prosecution typically hinges on the testimony of eyewitnesses who are often not very reliable, which raises a possible defense of mistaken identity.