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Author Doyle, James M., 1950-

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

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  345.73 DOY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  345.73 DOYLE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.73066 DOYLE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.7306 D77    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  345.73 DO    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 223 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-217) and index.
Contents I was as sure as I could 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.
Subject Judicial error -- United States.
Eyewitness identification -- United States.
DNA fingerprinting -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
ISBN 1403964300
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