Charles Don Flores on Texas Death Row in 2021. A California psychology professor says new research on memory suggests witness testimony casts doubt on the guilt of a Texas man on death row — long ...

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

It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...

Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dr. Nancy Franklin, an eyewitness memory and identification expert, testified at Kevin Strickland's evidentiary hearing on Tuesday. The hearing could result in Strickland's release ...

Eyewitness memory remains a cornerstone of criminal investigations and courtroom decisions, yet it is inherently fallible. Human memory operates through encoding, storage and retrieval processes that ...

Psychologist John Wixted says that through the course of a criminal investigation, an eyewitnesses memory can be influenced and altered. But under... We're told eyewitness testimony isn't reliable.

AMES, Iowa -- Last week, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper reported that Palm Beach County, Fla., law enforcement is working to develop a consistent set of rules for eyewitnesses, hoping it will help ...

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 ...

A memory expert testified Tuesday that the lone eyewitness’ identification of Kevin Strickland in his decades-old murder trial was “extremely unreliable.” Nancy Franklin, an emeritus professor in ...