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November 28, 2012

Eyewitness Testimony Just Isn't Reliable

Steve Weinberg, The American Prospect

In experiment after experiment, Gary Wells has established that eyewitness testimony is unreliable and leads to wrongful convictions. Why has the judicial system not adopted his recommendations?

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TAGGED: prison, crime

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