Eyewitness misidentification is one of the most common factors ... "That is the person who did this to me," juries are unlikely to reject that testimony. Kirk Bloodsworth (Maryland): Kirk Bloodworth, ...

Moynihan said that the eyewitness did not know Adams and could not identify him by name, implying that she had no reason to fabricate testimony ... s a clear case of a false confession and ...

While eyewitness testimony can be persuasive evidence before a judge or jury, 30 years of strong social science research has proven that eyewitness identification is often unreliable. Research shows ...

Memory is malleable, and false memories—memories that seem true and clear in your mind but are somewhat or entirely mistaken—are quite common. Eyewitness testimony, for example, has been ...