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Research into the issue of wrongful convictions have led to the use of methods to avoid wrongful convictions, such as double-blind eyewitness identification. [74] Leading causes of wrongful convictions in the United States include snitches [75] and unscientific forensics. [76] [77] Other causes include police and prosecutorial misconduct. [78] [79]
In eyewitness identification, in criminal law, evidence is received from a witness "who has actually seen an event and can so testify in court". [1]The Innocence Project states that "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."
Frederick Salem Zain (April 14, 1951 – December 2, 2002) [1] [2] was an American forensic laboratory technician in West Virginia and Bexar County, Texas, who falsified serology [3] results to obtain convictions.
Yes, the cops got the wrong guy, but the forensics misled them; the prosecutors failed to screen out the error; the defenders didn’t effectively challenge the misidentification; the judge and ...
Byron Case was convicted in 2002 for the murder of Anastasia WitbolsFeugen. His attorneys filed a 100-plus page motion on Tuesday with evidence they say could prove his innocence.
Eyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other witnessed dramatic event. [1] Eyewitness testimony is often relied upon in the judicial system.It can also refer to an individual's memory for a face, where they are required to remember the face of their perpetrator, for example. [2]
These kinds of eyewitness errors are common in wrongful conviction cases. The Innocence Projects says that eyewitness misidentification played a role in 69% of convictions overturned by DNA evidence.
In nearly half of these cases, faulty forensics contributed to the original conviction. [3] Per February 4, 2014 NPR article, Laura Sullivan cited Samuel Gross, a University of Michigan law professor stating that exonerations were on the rise, and not just because of DNA evidence. Only one-fifth of the exonerations in 2013 relied on newly ...