Sentences with phrase «mistaken eyewitness identifications»

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 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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.