High Court Rewrites the Rules For Eyewitness Identifications

New Jersey’s Supreme Court is putting tighter strictures on admission of eyewitness identifications in criminal cases and offering better guidance for jurors weighing such evidence. The new jury charges tell jurors “Human memory is not foolproof” and research has shown it is “not like a video recording that a witness need only replay to remember what happened.”

View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

SEO Powered by Platinum SEO from Techblissonline
Get Adobe Flash player
© 1992-2013 DC2NET™, Inc. All Rights Reserved