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At-risk populations under investigation and at trial.

Norris, Robert J.; Redlich, Allison D.

Pages: 13 –32

In this chapter, we discuss how three vulnerability factors—youthful status, mental illness, and developmental disability—contribute to the conviction of the innocent. We focus on interrogation-induced false confessions and the adjudicative competence of these groups. Although there are numerous...

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Detecting deception.

Leach, Amy-May

Pages: 35 –52

To date, little attention has been paid to deceptive witnesses and officials. However, law enforcement officials, forensic experts, accomplices, jailhouse informants, and eyewitnesses might also be highly motivated to lie. For example, accomplices and jailhouse informants have been known to lie...

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False confessions.

Hasel, Lisa E.; Kassin, Saul M.

Pages: 53 –77

With mounting numbers of DNA exonerations putting a spotlight on the problem of false confessions, psychologists and other researchers have sought to understand the processes by which police interview suspects in an effort to distinguish truth tellers from liars, the dispositional and situational...

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Procedural justice evaluations in interrogations.

Sivasubramaniam, Diane; Heuer, Larry

Pages: 79 –102

Data from the Innocence Project have shown that in 25% of cases in which people have been wrongfully convicted, those innocent people had confessed to the crime of which they were accused. Much research has centered on this finding, investigating the factors that would lead innocent suspects to...

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Fallible eyewitness memory and identification.

Pezdek, Kathy

Pages: 105 –124

Some eyewitness identifications are accurate identifications of guilty individuals, and some eyewitness identifications are misidentifications of innocent individuals. The focus of this chapter is on determining when eyewitness identification is more likely to be correct or incorrect, and what...

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Suggestive eyewitness identification procedures.

Zimmerman, David M.; Austin, Jacqueline L.; Kovera, Margaret Bull

Pages: 125 –148

In this chapter, we review the psychological foundations, research methodologies, and relevant research on suggestive eyewitness identifications procedures, followed by an examination of the policy implications and future directions for research in this important domain. (PsycInfo Database Record...

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Eyewitness confidence malleability.

Douglass, Amy Bradfield; Pavletic, Afton

Pages: 149 –165

Although there is no question that witnesses sometimes lie on the stand to make themselves appear more credible, our primary concern in this chapter is with witnesses whose high confidence is genuinely reported but connected to a mistaken identification or erroneous crime report details. Although...

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Why do motions to suppress suggestive eyewitness identifications fail?

Wells, Gary L.; Greathouse, Sarah M.; Smalarz, Laura

Pages: 167 –184

In the American legal system, one of the safeguards against wrongful convictions on the basis of mistaken eyewitness identification is the right of the defense to file motions to suppress suggestive eyewitness identifications. These pretrial motions to suppress eyewitness identification evidence...

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Jurors believe eyewitnesses.

Semmler, Carolyn; Brewer, Neil; Douglass, Amy Bradfield

Pages: 185 –209

In this chapter, we first introduce the way that the courts expect jurors to evaluate eyewitness testimony across the three main Western legal systems with which we are familiar: the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. Second, we review the methods developed to understand what it is...

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Unreliable informant testimony.

Neuschatz, Jeffrey S.; Jones, Nicholaos; Wetmore, Stacy A.; McClung, Joy

Pages: 213 –238

The Prosecutors Committee Report (PCR) of the Working Group on the Prevention of Miscarriages of Justice (2009) defined a jailhouse informant as someone who, while in custody, allegedly receives one or more statements from an accused person, where the statements relate to some offense that...

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