Innocent people are frequently convicted of crimes on the basis of a witness’s false memories. Emerging science poses a ...

Twenty eyewitnesses testified before the grand jury investigating the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. None of these accounts is fully consistent with any other. Moreover, ...

Many individuals have been falsely accused of a crime based, at least in part, on confident eyewitness identifications, a fact that has bred distrust of eyewitness confidence in the US legal system.

A new report recommends best practices that law enforcement agencies and courts should follow to improve the likelihood that eyewitness identifications used in criminal cases will be accurate. A new ...

Science has prevailed over injustice in the state of New Jersey, where all jurors will soon learn about memory's unreliability and the limits of eyewitness testimony. According to instructions issued ...

Picture this: You are walking home alone. It’s dark, and you feel like someone is watching you. Suddenly someone comes around the corner and threatens you, taking your things. It all happens in a ...

Brandon L. Garrett is a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong.” Updated August 31, 2011, 5:24 PM ...

"The Forensic View," my blog on Psychology Today, obviously deals mainly with forensic issues. These include the complex processes of eyewitness cognition. However, regular readers of these posts will ...

"The Forensic View," my blog on Psychology Today, obviously deals mainly with forensic issues. These include the complex processes of eyewitness cognition. However, regular readers of these posts will ...