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  1. Eyewitness errors (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/) – Explore the story of Ronald Cotton's wrongful conviction through erroneous eyewitness testimony. Hear from the eyewitness who now recognizes her error. Try a photo lineup yourself and more at this Web site associated with PBS' Frontline show "What Jennifer Saw."
  2. Police Interrogations, Eyewitness Identification, Jury Decision-making (http://www.williams.edu/Psychology/Faculty/Kassin/research/index.html) – One of the leading researchers in this area, Saul Kassin, makes available a lot of his and his colleagues' publications related to psychology and the law.
  3. "Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement" (http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/178240.pdf) - from the U.S. Dept. of Justice (1999).
  4. "Innocence Lost: The Plea" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/) - PBS Frontline show on the fascinating case of preschool workers in North Carolina accused of child sexual abuse on the basis of children's testimony.
  5. DNA Easy (http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/riley/riley.html) - "DNA Testing: An Introduction for Non-Scientists: An Illustrated Explanation" by Donald Riley, (1998), from Scientific Testimony, an online journal.
  6. "The Case for Innocence" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/case/) - "Why do inmates remain in prison despite DNA evidence which exonerates them with near certainty?" PBS Frontline show (2000) explores this question.
  7. Majority vs. Unanimous Jury Decisions (http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/publications/documents/research/ResearchBriefs/2006/RBR200604.pdf) - Several Australian jurisdictions are now allowing majority jury verdicts rather than requiring unanimous decisions. This report reviews the research on the topic.
  8. "The Psychology of Confessions" (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/index.cfm?journal=pspi&content=pspi/5_2) - an excellent series of articles in the most recent issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest
  9. Forensic "science" (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0410170393oct17,1,5918666.story?coll=chi-news-hed) - I can't recommend this series enough. This five-part series published by the Chicago Tribune (2004) does a fantastic job of exposing the lack of scientific support for many forensic techniques such as fingerprinting, arson investigation, and firearm and bite mark identification. It also describes quite well how the justice system and juries so easily fall for the claims of supposed "experts," how they became "experts," and why it is so easy for many of them to engage in confirmation bias and belief perseverance.
  10. Video: Documentary of an entire criminal case (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ml/index.pl?folder=%2FMiscellaneous%20Video%2Fbigman%2F) - "The Shooting of Big Man: Anatomy of a Criminal Case" is now available for viewing online. The one hour, 40 min. documentary first shown on ABC News quite a few years ago follows a single case from beginning to end.
  11. "Did Texas execute an innocent man?" (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3472872.html) - See the role eyewitness testimony played in the conviction.







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