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True witness : cops, courts, science, and the battle against misidentification / James M. Doyle.

by Doyle, James M., 1950-

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Judicial error -- United States.

Eyewitness identification -- United States.

DNA fingerprinting -- United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2004049756.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004049756.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol052/2004049756.html

xiii, 223 p. ; 25 cm.

As sure as I can be -- The lawyer alone is obdurate: Professor Munsterberg battles Dean Wigmore -- The lawyers' art: bad verdicts from good witnesses -- Nobody likes a smartass: Bob Buckhout joins the battle -- The book on the street: the cops, the courts, and the eyewitnesses -- We took Loftus seriously: Elizabeth Loftus and the science of memory -- The way we look at seeing: the accelerating study of eyewitness memory -- The government wins when justice is done in its courts: three prosecutors -- DNA to the rescue (of some) -- Break out shot: Gary Wells and the system -- A technical working group: the police craft a new book -- A road ahead: the continuing study of wrongful convictions -- An endgame: looking back on Gary Graham.

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