Eyewitness Testimony News Articles
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This is a small sampling of articles relating to wrongful conviction cases involving faulty eyewitness testimony.
April 10, 2012:
Identity crisis: Eyewitness ID's come under suspicion
February 4, 2012:
Bennett S. Barbour Wrongful conviction, delayed justice
December 11, 2011:
Thomas Haynesworth fully exonerated by Va. appeals court
November 22, 2011:
Obie Anthony, freed after 17 years in prison, looks forward to Thanksgiving at home
October 24, 2011:
In New Jersey, Rules Are Changed on Witness IDs
October 11, 2011:
Conviction fails to end questions - Police and prosecutors re-examine 1996 murder case
October 11, 2011:
Eyewitness Testimony Faulty
August, 2011:
SanDiego Magazine: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
September 10, 2010:
Cody Vandenberg, imprisoned for 14 years, released as Brown County prosecutors ponder retrial
August 7, 2010:
False witness: Mistaken eyewitness testimony is far too common in wrongful imprisonment cases
May 7, 2010:
Duke Law celebrates release of Shawn Massey
October 21, 2009:
Dallas DA, DPD Reopen 1997 Murder Case, and Discover They Convicted the Wrong Men
September 2, 2009:
DNA Clears Man Held on Rape Charge Since '95
July 31, 2009:
Suspect Cleared of Bank Heists: Man Set Free After Another Admits to Committing Crimes
July 12, 2009:
Eyewitness: How Accurate Is Visual Memory?
March 7, 2009:
After DNA test, Richmond man awaits pardon in rape case
October 12, 2008:
18 Dallas County cases overturned by DNA relied on heavily eyewitness testimony
July 30, 2008:
Innocence Project Argues DNA Clears Newark Man
May 21, 2008:
After nearly 26 years in prison, man to go free in rape case
February 7, 2008:
Mother freed from prison for crime she didn't commit
October 22, 2007:
Rape conviction gone, stigma isn't - 20 years later, DNA clears man of crime
October 4, 2007:
Man exonerated 14 years after rape conviction
October 4, 2007:
Dwayne Allen Dail: Man cleared after 18 years in prison
November 20, 2005:
Did Texas execute an innocent man? THE CANTU CASE: DEATH AND DOUBT
April 5, 1999:
Stanford Law School
(PDF): The Problem with Eyewitness Testimony a talk by Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology and George Fisher, Professor of Law
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