American Judges Association
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
Date of this Version
2012
Document Type
Article
Citation
Court Review, Volume 48, Issues 1-2, 14-21
Abstract
An increasingly strong case can be made for the argument that mistaken-eyewitness identification is the primary cause of the conviction of the innocent in the United States. The strongest single body of evidence in support of this proposition is the collection of cases in which forensic DNA testing was used to exonerate people who had been convicted by juries and were serving hard time (some on death row). These cases are well documented and tracked at the Innocence Project website and, as of this writing, there were 267 fully exonerated cases, of which 203 (76%) were cases involving mistaken-eyewitness identification.
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