Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion ...

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that defendants can use expert witnesses to explain the potential flaws in eyewitness identification. This decision reversed a Boone County man's conviction for indecent ...

A metro bus in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles (Han Zheng / Wikipedia) LOS ANGELES (CN) — Passengers of an LA Metro bus that was hijacked last year testified Tuesday about the shocking ...

SAN ANTONIO – A Houston man accused of murder in San Antonio is claiming self-defense, but an eyewitness contradicted that claim in court on Thursday. Tavares Anderson has been on trial the entire ...

It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...

Episodic memory is the conscious recollection of events as they were previously experienced. Eyewitness testimony is primarily based on episodic memory and plays a critical role in criminal and legal ...

Editor’s note: This article contains explicit descriptions of sexual assault. Israeli police released a horrific account of rape carried out by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attack on the music ...

Confident, credible eyewitnesses provide very compelling evidence in courtroom proceedings. Yet eyewitness errors frequently have tragic consequences for the wrongly accused. In previous posts of the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Defense attorneys attempted to cast doubt on an eyewitness' testimony during cross-examination Wednesday in the trial for the death of Manuel Ellis. Ellis died on March 3, 2020 after a ...

Can a child be a reliable eyewitness? In today’s Academic Minute, Clemson University’s Ben Cotterill examines this question. Cotterill is a lecturer at Clemson University and author of Are Children ...

DENVER - When identifying a suspect involved in a crime, the experts say eyewitnesses don't always see what they think they see. In fact, investigators say most of us don't pay close attention at all ...