Capital Defense Weekly

March 8th, 2009

Publicizing bad eyewitness id

via Standdown:

Tonight on CBS News’ 60 Minutes

There are two segments on tonight’s program dealing with eyewitness identification problems and reforms.  It’s the leading cause of wrongful convictions caught through DNA exonerations.

How Accurate Is Visual Memory? and Catching The Right Criminal are the two reports by Leslie Stahl.

University of Iowa Psychology Professor Gary Wells is featured in the reports.

More is at StandDown’s eyewitness identification index

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