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Science and the Law

For the first time in several years, I spent a week not reading anything law.  No cases, no work, no books.  Nothing.  If you think you see a lot wrong with the system when reading law, put the books down and read some science: Then you'll really realize how screwy the system is. Let's take eyewitness identifications, for example.  Let's see how they're done, and see why a freshman wouldn't pass Chemistry 101 if he performed his science the way we perform eyewitness IDs. In the typical police line-up, police put a suspect's photograph on a sheet with five other people with similar characteristics.  It's called a "six pack," since there are six photos on the page.  The police then tell an eyewitness to "Pick one...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).