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Are eyewitnesses accurate?
tip: to Crime & Consequences, who gives a Hat tip to Howard Bashman at How Appealing for his post reporting on an audio segment on NPR’s “Day to Day” discussing the reliability of eyewitness identification in criminal trials. The segment, from Slate.com writer Dahlia Lithwick, dicusses research from Gary Wells and Deah Quinlivan. Wells is a psychology professor from Iowa State University. According to Lithwick, Wells’ study shows that of the more than 230 people in the United States who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated by DNA evidence, approximately 77 percent involved cases of mistaken eyewitness identification. This is more than any other factor. Wells and Quinlivan’s study Law and Human Behavior. was published in last month’s





