Eyewitness ID
This section contains resources which address wrongful convictions resulting primarily from inaccurate, mistaken or perjured eyewitness identification.
Popular mediaTitle: Dallas Police Opts for New Witness ID MethodJournal articles
Citation: Hous. Chron., January 16, 2009.
Title: Editorial, A Way to End 'Tells' for Witness Lineups
Citation: Daytona Beach News-Journal, February 18, 2008.
Title: Editorial, Make Lineups Better
Citation: Buffalo News, May 28, 2008.
Title: Eyewitness: How Accurate Is Visual Memory?
Citation: CBS News, 60 Minutes, March 8, 2009.
Title: Ga. Lawmaker Aims to Improve Suspect Lineup Procedures
Citation: Chattanooga Times Free Press, January 19, 2009.
Title: Innocence Project: Reform Needed in Lineup Procedures
Citation: North Country Gazette, July 19, 2009.
Title: Report: Most Georgia Police Have No Eyewitness Guidelines
Citation: Atlanta Journal Constitution, September 17, 2007.
Author: Alanez, Tonya
Title: Broward Public Defender Urges Police to Reform Lineups for Suspects
Citation: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October 29, 2007.
Author: Apgar, Sally
Title: State frees Riviera Beach man in road-rage death case
Citation: Sun-Sentinel.com, February 28, 2007.
Author: Associated Press
Title: Faulty Eyewitnesses Doomed Dallas County Suspects
Citation: Hous. Chron., October 11, 2008.
Author: Balko, Radley
Title: Eyewitness Testimony on Trial
Citation: Reason, April 8, 2009.
Author: Barron, James
Title: Murder Sentence Overturned After Testimony of a Witness
Citation: N.Y. Times, April 2, 2008, at B2.
Author: Beckwith, Ryan Teague
Title: House OKs eyewitness ID measure
Citation: newsobserver.com, May 2, 2007.
Author: Campos, Carlos
Title: How Reliable Are Eyewitnesses?
Citation: Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 22, 2007.
Author: Colb, Sherry F.
Title: The Perils of Eyewitness Identification: A Personal Account
Citation: FindLaw, March 18, 2009.
Author: Cose, Ellis
Title: Actual Innocence
Citation: Newsweek, June 18, 2009.
Author: Downey, Maureen
Title: Opinion, Sharper Eyewitnessing
Citation: Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 21, 2007.
Author: Eiserer, Tanya
Title: Dallas Has Eye On More Reliable Photo Lineups
Citation: Dallas Morning News, September 26, 2007.
Author: Eligon, John
Title: Man Jailed for '91 Murder Is Cleared by Judge
Citation: N.Y. Times, November 13, 2009, at A1.
Author: Emily, Jennifer
Title: After 2 Years of Delays, Study on Photo Lineups Set to Start
Citation: Dallas Morning News, January 1, 2009.
Author: Emily, Jennifer
Title: Man Mistaken for Rapist Twice in One Day After 'Citizen Showup'
Citation: Dallas Morning News, October 13, 2008.
Author: Emily, Jennifer and McGonigle, Steve
Title: Dallas Police Reviewing Cases That Relied on 'Showup' Identifications
Citation: Dallas Morning News, October 16, 2008.
Author: Emily, Jennifer and McGonigle, Steve
Title: Eyewitness Testimony Still Key to Cases When There's No DNA
Citation: Dallas Morning News, October 14, 2008.
Author: Feige, David
Title: Editorial, Witnessing Guilt, Ignoring Innocence?
Citation: N.Y. Times, June 6, 2006, at A21.
Author: Goldman, Abigail
Title: Remember this face? Computerized Caricatures Might Jog Witnesses' Memories Better Than Sketches
Citation: Las Vegas Sun, March 1, 2008.
Author: Goodman, Brenda
Title: Court Rebuffs Georgian on Death Row
Citation: N.Y. Times, March 18, 2008.
Author: Griffy, Leslie
Title: DA Loses: Judge Declares Convict Factually Innocent
Citation: San Jose Mercury News, December 20, 2007.
Author: Grimm, Fred
Title: Memories Fail Wrongly Accused; So Does Florida
Citation: Miami Herald, June 8, 2006, at B1.
Author: Hanners, David
Title: Minneapolis/Confession Raises Questions
Citation: Pioneer Press, September 24, 2007.
Author: Hepp, Rick
Title: Justices Tell Judges to Warn Juries About Eyewitness IDs
Citation: The Star Ledger, May 22, 2007.
Author: Herbert, Bob
Title: Convicted, Executed, Not Guilty
Citation: N.Y. Times, July 14, 2005, at A25.
Author: Hodson, Sandy
Title: Appeal Waits 10 Years to be Heard
Citation: Augusta Chronicle, April 27, 2009.
Author: Jaksic, Vesna
Title: States Look at Reforming Lineup Methods
Citation: National Law Journal, April 20, 2007.
Author: Jones, Walter C.
Title: Cops Say Witness Procedures Don't Require a Law
Citation: Savannah Morning News, October 1, 2007.
Author: Khanna, Roma
Title: Study: Witness Errors Lead Juries Astray
Citation: Hous. Chron., March 26, 2009.
Author: Khanna, Roma
Title: Wrongly Convicted Man Finally Free After 14 Years
Citation: Hous. Chron., October 10, 2007.
Author: Kreytak, Steven
Title: Witness Identification Bill Pushed at Capitol
Citation: Austin Am.-Statesman, February 6, 2009.
Author: Lithwick, Dahlia
Title: When Our Eyes Deceive Us
Citation: Newsweek, March 14, 2009.
Author: Massey, Delano R. and Spears, Valarie Honeycutt
Title: Is This The Person Who Did It?
Citation: Lexington Herald-Leader, October 5, 2008.
Author: McGonigle, Steve
Title: Texas Senate Panel to Weigh Changes in Eyewitness Identification Procedures
Citation: Dallas Morning News, March 31, 2009.
Author: McGonigle, Steve and Emily, Jennifer
Title: 18 Dallas County Cases Overturned by DNA Relied on Heavily Eyewitness Testimony
Citation: Dallas Morning News, October 12, 2008.
Author: McGonigle, Steve and Emily, Jennifer
Title: DNA Exoneree Fell Victim to 'Drive-By' Identification
Citation: Dallas Morning News, October 13, 2008.
Author: Moran, David A. and Wyniemko, Kenneth
Title: Opinion, Reform Procedures So Innocents Aren't Convicted
Citation: Detroit Free Press, August 24, 2008.
Author: O'Connor, Michol
Title: Opinion, In Police Lineups, Eyewitness Testimony Is Usually Faulty
Citation: Hous. Chron., October 28, 2007.
Author: Palattella, Ed
Title: Suspect's Alibi? He's in Prison
Citation: Erie Times-News, January 10, 2008.
Author: Papandrea, Roselee
Title: Burlington Case the Subject of Sunday's '60 Minutes' Report
Citation: Times-News, March 7, 2009.
Author: Parrilla, Leslie
Title: Witnesses, Relative Identified Robber in Two SLO Cases - Wrongly
Citation: San Luis Obispo Tribune, April 10, 2009.
Author: Plohetski, Tony
Title: Austin Police Developing Photo Lineup Policies
Citation: Austin American-Statesman, May 8, 2009.
Author: Possley, Maurice
Title: Arrested At 13, Inmate Freed
Citation: Chi. Sun-Times, May 4, 2009.
Author: Raguso, Emilie
Title: Mistaken Identity: Innocent Man Spends Two Months in Jail
Citation: Modesto Bee, November 13, 2007.
Author: Ramstack, Tom
Title: RAMSTACK: Innocence Project Wins Again
Citation: Wash. Times, August 18, 2008.
Author: Rankin, Bill
Title: Exonerations Urge Changes for Eyewitnesses
Citation: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 25, 2008.
Author: Rankin, Bill
Title: Innocent Man's Conviction Shows Flaws in Line-Ups
Citation: Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 13, 2007.
Author: Rankin, Bill and Cook, Rhonda
Title: Court Issues Stay of Execution for Troy Davis
Citation: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 24, 2008.
Author: Rozas, Angela
Title: Best Police Format Not Yet Identified
Citation: Chi. Trib., July 30, 2007.
Author: Russell, Betsy Z.
Title: Grim Cases Overshadow New Evidence in Another
Citation: Spokesman-Review, August 23, 2009.
Author: Sanger-Katz, Margot
Title: Eyewitness Testimony Challenges
Citation: Concord Monitor, October 26, 2008.
Author: Sherman, Mark
Title: Race Sometimes a Problem in Eyewitness IDs
Citation: Associated Press, August 10, 2008.
Author: Smith, Jordan
Title: Eyewitness ID: Not Seeing Eye to Eye
Citation: Austin Chronicle, April 10, 2009, at 24.
Author: Spencer-Wendel, Susan
Title: Man, Wrongfully Imprisoned in '06, Avoids Long Sentence for Latest Run-In
Citation: Palm Beach Post, December 27, 2008.
Author: Spencer-Wendel, Susan
Title: Mistaken Identity: What Happens When An Eyewitness Is Wrong?
Citation: Palm Beach Post, March 25, 2009.
Author: Spencer-Wendel, Susan
Title: Witness ID can make, break case
Citation: Palm Beach Post, May 2, 2007.
Author: Springston, Jonathan
Title: Latest DNA Exoneree Another Case of Mistaken Identity
Citation: Atlanta Progressive News, December 15, 2007.
Author: Springston, Jonathan
Title: State House Committee Approves Eyewitness ID Reforms
Citation: Atlanta Progressive News, February 9, 2008.
Author: Strutin, Ken
Title: Expert Witnesses and Human Biometrics
Citation: New York Law Journal, May 14, 2008.
Author: Swickard, Joe
Title: Man to be Freed in '82 Assault
Citation: Detroit Free Press, May 21, 2008.
Author: TerBeek, Calvin
Title: A Call for Precedential Heads: Why the Supreme Court's Eyewitness Identification Jurisprudence is Anachronistic and Out-of-Step With the Empirical Reality
Citation: 31 Law and Psychol. Rev. 21 (2007).
Author: Tolson, Mike
Title: Value of Eyewitnesses Unclear
Citation: Hous. Chron., October 14, 2007.
Author: Von Zielbauer, Paul
Title: Witness to '91 Killing Says Wrong Man Is in Prison
Citation: N.Y. Times, September 2, 2009, at A20.
Author: Waddington, Lynda
Title: ISU Prof's Findings Throw Eyewitness Testimony Into Doubt
Citation: Iowa Independent, March 9, 2009.
Author: Walberg, Matthew
Title: Thaddeus Jimenez Released From Prison After Wrongful Conviction in 1993 Shooting
Citation: Chi. Trib., May 5, 2009.
Author: Weinstein, Henry
Title: Commission Urges Changes in Use of Eyewitness Identifications, The State Panel Cites Problems with Current Procedures, Particularly Cross-Racial IDS, A Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions
Citation: L.A. Times, April 14, 2006, at 3.
Author: Williams, Christopher
Title: Bates Professor: Treat Eyewitness Accounts Like Other Evidence
Citation: SunJournal.com, February 22, 2008.
Author: Armbrust, ShawnBooks
Title: Reevaluating Recanting Witnesses: Why the Red-Headed Stepchild of New Evidence Deserves Another Look
Citation: 28 B.C. Third World L.J. 75 (2008).
Author: Benton, Tanja Rapus, McDonnell, Stephanie A., Thomas, Judge Neil, Ross, David F., and Honerkamp, Nicholas
Title: On the Admissibility of Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Identification: A Legal and Scientific Evaluation
Citation: 2 Tenn. J. L. and Pol'y 392 (2006).
Author: Bornstein, Brian H., O'Bryant, Sid, and Zickafoose, Douglas J.
Title: Intuitions About Arousal and Eyewitness Memory: Effects on Mock Jurors' Judgments
Citation: Law and Psychol. Rev., Spring 2008, at 109.
Author: Bottoms, Bette L.
Title: The Benefits of Socially Supportive Interviewing for Child Eyewitnesses
Citation: 11 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 3 (2006).
Author: Bradfield, Amy L., Wells, Gary L., and Olson, Elizabeth A.
Title: The Damaging Effect of Confirming Feedback on the Relation Between Eyewitness Certainty and Identification Accuracy
Citation: 87 J. Applied Psychol. 112 (2002).
Author: Burke, Jeanne A. and Mertz, Scott
Title: A Uniquely Dispositive Power: How Postconviction DNA Testing Impeached Accomplice Testimony, Implicated a Lone Killer, and Exonerated the Beatrice Six
Citation: 42 Creighton L. Rev. 549 (2009).
Author: Chiu, Aaron H.
Title: Comment, "We Can't Tell Them Apart": When and How the Court Should Educate Jurors on the Potential Inaccuracies of Cross-Racial Identifications
Citation: 7 U. Md. L.J. of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 415 (2007).
Author: Clements, Noah
Title: Flipping A Coin: A Solution for the Inherent Unreliability of Eyewitness Identification Testimony
Citation: 40 Ind. L. Rev. 271 (2007).
Author: Collins, Winn S.
Title: Comment, Improving Eyewitness Evidence Collection Procedures in Wisconsin
Citation: 2003 Wis. L. Rev. 529 (2003).
Author: Collins, Winn S.
Title: Safeguards for Witness Identification
Citation: 77 Wis. Lawyer 8 (2004).
Author: Cutler, Brian L.
Title: A Sample of Witness, Crime, and Perpetrator Characteristics Affecting Eyewitness Identification Accuracy
Citation: 4 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y and Ethics J. 327 (2006).
Author: Devenport, Jennifer L., Penrod, Steven D., and Cutler, Brian L.
Title: Eyewitness Identification Evidence - Evaluating Commonsense Evaluations
Citation: 3 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y and L. 338 (1997).
Author: Douglas, Britton
Title: Comment, "That's What She Said": Why Limiting the Use of Uncorroborated Eyewitness Identification Testimony Could Prevent Wrongful Convictions in Texas
Citation: 41 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 561 (2009).
Author: Doyle, James M., Penrod, Steven, Kovera, Margaret Bull, and Dysart, Jennifer
Title: The Street, The Lab, The Courtroom, The Meeting Room
Citation: 11 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 13 (2006).
Author: Duke, Steven B., Lee, Ann Seung-Eun, and Pager, Chet K.W.
Title: A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words: Conversational Versus Eyewitness Testimony in Criminal Convictions
Citation: 44 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1 (2007).
Author: Ebbesen, Ebbe B. and Finklea, Kristin M.
Title: In Response to the Illinois Pilot Program on Simultaneous v. Sequential Lineups
Citation: 11 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 9 (2006).
Author: Fisher, Stanley Z. and McKenzie, Ian
Title: A Miscarriage of Justice in Massachusetts: Eyewitness Identification Procedures, Unrecorded Admissions, and a Comparison with English Law
Citation: 13 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 1 (2003).
Author: Frampton, Jody E.
Title: Comment, Can A Jury Believe My Eyes, and Should Courts Let Experts Tell Them Why Not: The Admissibility of Expert Testimony on Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identification in New York After People v. Young
Citation: 27 Pace L. Rev. 433 (2007).
Author: Gambell, Suzannah B.
Title: Comment, The Need to Revisit the Neil v. Biggers Factors: Suppressing Unreliable Eyewitness Identifications
Citation: 6 Wyo. L. Rev. 189 (2006).
Author: Heinzmann, David
Title: Chicago Can Keep Data on Police Lineup Study Under Wraps
Citation: Chi. Trib., June 30, 2008.
Author: Hinz, Tiffany and Pezdek, Kathy
Title: The Effect of Exposure to Multiple Lineups on Face Identification Accuracy
Citation: 25 Law and Hum. Behav. 185 (2001).
Author: Klobuchar, Amy and Caligiuri, Hilary Lindell
Title: Protecting the Innocent/Convicting the Guilty: Hennepin County's Pilot Project in Blind Sequential Eyewitness Identification
Citation: 32 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1 (2005).
Author: Klobuchar, Amy, Mehrkens, Nancy K., and Caligirui, Hilary Lindell
Title: Improving Eyewitness Identifications: Hennepin County's Blind Sequential Lineup Pilot Project
Citation: 4 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y and Ethics J. 381 (2006).
Author: Koch, Rudolf
Title: Note, Process v. Outcome: The Proper Role of Corroborative Evidence in Due Process Analysis of Eyewitness Identification Testimony
Citation: 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1097 (2003).
Author: Koosed, Margery Malkin
Title: Reforming Eyewitness Identification Law and Practices to Protect the Innocent
Citation: 42 Creighton L. Rev. 595 (2009).
Author: Koosed, Mary Malkin
Title: The Proposed Innocence Protection Act Won't - Unless It Also Curbs Mistaken Eyewitness Identifications
Citation: 63 Ohio St. L.J. 263 (2002).
Author: Lindo, Joy
Title: Note, New Jersey Jurors Are No Longer Color-Blind Regarding Eyewitness Identification
Citation: 30 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1224 (2000).
Author: Luria, Amy
Title: Showup Identifications: A Comprehensive Overview of the Problems and a Discussion of Necessary Changes
Citation: 96 Neb. L. Rev. 515 (2008).
Author: Malpass, Roy L.
Title: Notes on the Illinois Program on Sequential Double-Blind Identification Procedures
Citation: 11 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 5 (2006).
Author: Mc-Quiston Surrett, Dawn, Malpass, Roy S., and Tredoux, Colin G.
Title: Sequential vs. Simultaneous Lineups: A Review of Methods, Data, and Theory
Citation: 12 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y and L. 137 (2006).
Author: McNamara, Jessica M.
Title: Comment, Sketchy Eyewitness-Identification Procedures: A Proposal to Draw Up Legal Guidelines for the Use of Facial Components in Criminal Investigations
Citation: 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 763 (2009).
Author: Mourer, Sarah Anne
Title: Reforming Eyewitness Identification Procedures Under the Fourth Amendment
Citation: 3 Duke J. Const. L. and Pub. Pol'y 49 (2008).
Author: Natarajan, Radha
Title: Note, Racialized Memory and Reliability: Due Process Applied to Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identifications
Citation: 78 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1821 (2003).
Author: Norton, Jerry E.
Title: Recent Appellate Court Decisions on Eyewitness Identification
Citation: 11 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 1 (2006).
Author: O'Toole, Timothy P. and Shay, Giovanna
Title: Manson v. Brathwaite Revisited: Towards a New Rule of Decision for Due Process Challenges to Eyewitness Identification
Citation: 41 Val. U. L. Rev. 109 (2006).
Author: Park, Roger C.
Title: Eyewitness Identification: Expert Witnesses Are Not the Only Solution
Citation: 2 Law Probability and Risk 305 (2003).
Author: Penrod, Steven
Title: Eyewitness Identification Evidence: How Well Are Witnesses and Police Performing?
Citation: 18 Crim. Justice 36 (2003).
Author: Poll-Klaessy, Susan
Title: The Role of Attorney Ethics and Witness Misidentification in the 26 Year Incarceration of an Innocent Man
Citation: 14 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 25 (2008).
Author: Priest, Pat
Title: Eyewitness Identification and the Scientific Method
Citation: 65 Tex. Bar J. 974 (2002).
Author: Russano, Melissa B., Dickinson, Jason J., Greathouse, Sarah M., and Kovera, Margaret Bull
Title: "Why Don't You Take Another Look at Number Three?": Investigator Knowledge and its Effects on Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Decisions
Citation: 4 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y and Ethics J. 355 (2006).
Author: Rutledge, John P.
Title: They All Look Alike: The Inaccuracy of Cross-racial Identifications
Citation: 28 Am. J. Crim. L. 207 (2001).
Author: Schacter, Daniel L., Dawes, Robyn, Jacoby, Larry L., Kahneman, Daniel, Lempert, Richard, Roediger, Henry L., and Rosenthal, Robert
Title: Policy Forum: Studying Eyewitness Investigations in the Field
Citation: 31 Law and Hum. Behav. ___ (July 2007).
Author: Shelton, Bethany
Title: Comment, Turning A Blind Eye to Justice: Kansas Courts Must Integrate Scientific Research Regarding Eyewitness Testimony into the Courtroom
Citation: 56 U. Kan. L. Rev. 949 (2008).
Author: Steblay, Nancy K.
Title: Maintaining the Reliability of Eyewitness Evidence: After the Lineup
Citation: 42 Creighton L. Rev. 643 (2009).
Author: Steblay, Nancy K. Mehrkens
Title: Reforming Eyewitness Identification: Cautionary Lineup Instructions; Weighing the Advantages and Disadvantages of Show-Ups versus Lineups
Citation: 4 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y and Ethics J. 341 (2006).
Author: Stein, Edward
Title: The Admissibility of Expert Testimony About Cognitive Science Research on Eyewitness Identificaiton
Citation: 2 Law Probability and Risk 295 (2003).
Author: Taslitz, Andrew E.
Title: Eyewitness Identification, Democratic Liberation, and the Politics of Science
Citation: 4 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol'y and Ethics J. 271 (2006).
Author: Thompson, Sandra Guerra
Title: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? Reconsidering Uncorroborated Eyewitness Identification Testimony
Citation: 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1487 (2008).
Author: Thompson, Sandra Guerra
Title: What Price Justice? The Importance of Costs to Eyewitness Identification Reform
Citation: 41 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 33 (2008).
Author: Valentine, Tim, Darling, Stephen, and Memon, Amina
Title: How Can Psychological Science Enhance the Effectiveness of Identification Procedures? An International Comparison
Citation: 11 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 21 (2006).
Author: Wells, Gary L.
Title: Eyewitness Identification: Systemic Reforms
Citation: 2006 Wis. L. Rev. 615 (2006).
Author: Wells, Gary L.
Title: Police Lineups: Data, Theory, and Policy
Citation: 7 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y and L. 791 (2001).
Author: Wells, Gary L. and Bradfield, Amy L.
Title: "Good, You Identified the Suspect": Feedback to Eyewitnesses Distorts Their Experience of the Witnessing Experience
Citation: 83 J. Applied Psychol. 360 (1998).
Author: Wells, Gary L. and Olson, Elizabeth A.
Title: Eyewitness Testimony
Citation: 54 Annu. Rev. Psychol. 277 (2003).
Author: Wells, Gary L. and Seelau, Eric P.
Title: Eyewitness Identification: Psychological Research and Legal Policy on Lineups
Citation: 1 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y and L. 765 (1995).
Author: Wells, Gary L., Small, Mark, Penrod, Steven, Malpass, Roy S., Fulero, Solomon M., and Brimacombe, C.A.E.
Title: Eyewitness Identification Procedures: Recommendations for Lineups and Photospreads
Citation: 22 Law and Hum. Behav. 603 (1998).
Author: Wise, Richard A., Dauphinais, Kirsten A., and Safer, Martin A.
Title: A Tripartite Solution to Eyewitness Error
Citation: 97 J. Crim L. and Criminology 807 (2007).
Author: Woller, Scott
Title: Note, Rethinking the Role of Expert Testimony Regarding the Liabilty of Eyewitness Identifications in New York
Citation: 48 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 323 (2003/2004).
Author: Yacona, Ruth
Title: Manson v. Bathwaite: The Supreme Court's Misunderstanding of Eyewitness Identification
Citation: 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 539 (2006).
Author: Zagel, James B.
Title: Getting to Truth Before It Falls Into the Hands of Lawyers: Pursuing Accuracy in Criminal Cases
Citation: 11 Pub. Int. L. Rep. 17 (2006).
Author: Doyle, James M.Reports
Title: True Witness: Cops, Courts, Science, and the Battle Against Misidentification
Citation: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Author: Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer, Cotton, Ronald, and Torneo, Erin
Title: Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Citation: St. Martin's Press, 2009.
Author: California Commission on the Fair Administration of JusticeLegislation
Title: Report and Recommendations Regarding Eyewitness Identification Procedures
Citation: April 13, 2006.
URL: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/gwells/California_Commission.pdf
Author: Mecklenburg, Sheri H.
Title: Addendum to the Report to the Legislature of the State of Illinois: The Illinois Pilot Program on Sequential Double-Blind Identification Procedures
Citation: June 19, 2006.
URL: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/Documents/IllinoisPilotStudyOnEyewitnessIDAddendum.pdf
Author: Mecklenburg, Sheri H. on behalf of Illinois State Police
Title: Appendix to Report to the Legislature of the State of Illinois: The Illinois Pilot Program on Sequential Double-Blind Identification Procedures
Citation: March 17, 2006.
URL: http://www.chicagopolice.org/Apndx%20to%20IL%20Pilot%20on%20Eyewitness%20ID.pdf
Author: Mecklenburg, Sheri H. on behalf of Illinois State Police
Title: Report to the Legislature of the State of Illinois: The Illinois Pilot Program on Sequential Double-Blind Identification Procedures
Citation: March 17, 2006.
URL: http://eyewitness.utep.edu/Documents/IllinoisPilotStudyOnEyewitnessID.pdf
Author: National Institute of Justice, Technical Working Group for Eyewitness Evidence
Title: Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement
Citation: October, 1999.
URL: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/178240.pdf
Author: National Institute of Justice, Technical Working Group for Eyewitness Evidence
Title: Eyewitness Evidence: A Trainer's Manual for Law Enforcement
Citation: September, 2003.
URL: http://www.ncjrs.gov/nij/eyewitness/188678.pdf
Title: California - S.B. 756 (2007)Other
Citation: Enrolled, September 7, 2007.
URL: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_756_bill_20070907_enrolled.pdf
Summary: Bill would, among other things, provide for a task force to study and consider the adoption of new policies and procedures relating to eyewitness identification.
Title: Eyewitness ID Reform Act
Citation: North Carolina - H1625 (2007); signed, August 23, 2007.
URL: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1625
Summary: Improves procedures for eyewitness identification of suspects.
Title: Eyewitness ID Reform Act
Citation: North Carolina - S725 (2007); pending.
URL: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S+725
Summary: Would improve procedures for eyewitness identification of suspects.
Title: West Virginia - S.B.82 (2007)
Citation: Approved by Governor, April 3, 2007.
URL: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?year=2007&sessiontype=RS
Summary: Creates Eyewitness Identification Act.
Author: Loeterman, Ben, Lyman, Will, and Neuberger, John
Title: Video: What Jennifer Saw
Citation: PBS Video, 1997.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/
Summary: "Exposes the weaknesses of eyewitness identification as a tool of evidence. Traces the 1984 US case of Ronald Cotton, wrongfully imprisoned for the rape of Jennifer Thompson. The victim, accused, police investigator and lawyers contribute."
Author: New Jersey Attorney General
Title: Guidelines for Preparing and Conducting Photo and Live Lineup Identification Procedures
Citation: April 18, 2001.
URL: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/FACULTY/gwells/njguidelines.pdf