Criminal Law and Procedure columnist Barry Kamins reviews the new best practices for identification procedures by witnesses, which reflect the results of substantial scientific research in the area of ...

Allowing eyewitnesses to dynamically explore digital faces using a new interactive procedure can significantly improve identification accuracy compared to the video lineup and photo array procedures ...

Witness misidentifications, often caused by police misconduct, lead to wrongful convictions. Courts assess whether identification procedures were unnecessarily suggestive and reliable. While police ...

Eyewitnesses make mistakes. Our understanding of how to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications is imperfect and evolving. In the previous chapters, we described law enforcement procedures ...

Although the constitutional standards for assessing eyewitness testimony have remained unchanged in the decades since the Manson v. Brathwaite decision, a body of research has shed light on the extent ...