AJ 012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eyewitness Identification, Moe Williams, Cognitive Dissonance

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 012
• Professor: yang

Document Summary

Leads to more wrongful convictions than any other evidence. Manson criteria are used to evaluate testimony accuracy. Neil v. biggers (1972) and manson v. braithwaite (1977) Opportunity, accuracy of description, level of attention, degree of certainty, and time lap between crime and identification. Can lead witnesses to overestimate how clear a view they had of the perpetrator. Suggestive questioning and identification procedures could cause a mistaken identification and could also inflate a witness"s estimates of his or her own standing on. Evaluation of witness attention and view time of perpetrator limited. Effects of time between witnessing crime and criminal identification. Undue juror faith in reliability of eyewitness testimony. Perry v. new hampshire (2012) (u. s. supreme court) Issue of eyewitness evidence revisited but manson criteria not updated. State v. henderson (2011) (nj supreme court) Manson rule does not provide sufficient reliability measure, does not deter, and overstates jury"s ability to evaluate eyewitness testimony. State v. lawson (2012) (or supreme court)