All Articles tagged Eyewitness Identification

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  APPLYING THE STAMP SAFETY MODEL TO PREVENT FALSE CONVICTIONS BASED ON EYEWITNESS MISIDENTIFICATIONS
  Boaz Sangero

  This article offers ways of reducing the rate of false convictions based on eyewitness misidentifications.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  RELIABLE JUSTICE: ADVANCING THE TWOFOLD AIM OF ESTABLISHING GUILT AND PROTECTING THE INNOCENT
  James R. Acker

  This article attempts to cast a somewhat different light on the traditional domain of wrongful conviction scholarship and policy.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  May 05, 2017 EDT
  WHERE SCIENCE CONFLICTS WITH COMMON SENSE: EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION REFORM IN MASSACHUSETTS
  Ralph D. GantsErik N. Doughty

  This essay follows eyewitness identification reform in Massachusetts.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  “THAN THAT ONE INNOCENT SUFFER”: EVALUATING STATE SAFEGUARDS AGAINST WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
  Robert J. NorrisCatherine L. BonventreAllison D. RedlichJames R. Acker

  This article comprehensively describes and analyzes current state policy initiatives in several areas relevant to the prevention of wrongful convictions.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  AN INVESTIGATION OF TOP-DOWN VS. BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING IN POST-APPELLATE REVIEW OF A CRIMINAL CASE
  Andrew M. SmithBrian L. CutlerKeith A. Findley

  This experiment examined the extent to which the knowledge that a case has passed pre-screening by an innocence project influences case reviewer judgment through top-down case processing.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  WHY AND HOW NEW YORK SHOULD ENACT MANDATORY STATEWIDE EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURES
  Andrew D. Rikard

  This comment proposes that New York State, through the adoption of mandatory statewide witness identification procedures, fulfill its moral and ethical duty to protect the innocent.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  PROTECTING THE INNOCENT IN NEW YORK: MOVING BEYOND CHANGING ONLY THEIR NAMES
  James R. AckerCatherine L. Bonventre

  This article focuses on the findings and recommendations of the Final Report of the New York State Bar Association‘s Task Force on Wrongful Convictions.