Criminal Law

Don’t assume that eyewitnesses are right. Don’t assume that their accounts are accurate. Many people do, but the science behind the process tells us an entirely different story. A concerning amount of the time, eyewitnesses -- even those who seem very confident in...

DNA testing has helped hundreds of people have their guilty convictions overturned. Around 70% of those people had wrongly been convicted due to eyewitness testimony. In some cases, multiple eyewitnesses had all placed them at the scene of the crime. Why do...