During the meeting Amirabdollahian said Irans government was committed to upholding human rights. [Youre smart and curious about the world. A cornerstone of the state's case is the video at or near the kennels filmed on Paul's phone starting at 8:44 p.m. in which Murdaugh's voice can be heard in the background. Eyewitness memory is reliable when initially tested using proper procedures, but the legal system nonetheless habitually relies on unreliable (contaminated) eyewitness evidence from later IDs. In Perry v. New Hampshire, the Supreme Court barred the defendant from challenging the eyewitness testimony proffered by the state, even though the circumstances surrounding the eyewitnesss identification of the defendant were decidedly suggestive. For example, 21 police departments in the state conduct blind photo lineups, in which the person administering the viewing doesnt know who the suspect is. This section will focus on the courts current treatment of eyewitness testimony. Alex Murdaugh's defense attorneys will deliver their closing arguments in his murder trial on Thursday as they seek to raise reasonable doubt about whether he killed his wife and son in 2021. 1 Garrett B. Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong. Two police officers thought the sketch resembled Miller, a man they had questioned a few days earlier. Noting a victims initial confidence level at the initial identification can be important, so as to track if the witness grows more or less confident with the identification over the course of the trial, which might be an indicator of eyewitness unreliability. With surprising ease, for example, participants in a memory experiment can be led to believe that they saw a stop sign when they actually saw a yield sign or that they became lost in a shopping mall as a child when no such experience actually occurred. by TCR Staff, The Crime Report May 24, 2021, This and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Editorial: He spent 38 years in prison for a crime he didnt commit. circuit court, the 29-year-old was convicted of a rape that he did not commit and was sentenced to five life sentences. A judge can review the footage to see if claims of witness tampering are true, or if the witness shows significant doubt while identifying the suspect. Her defence had argued that the children had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), but expert witness, Sir Professor Roy Meadow, told the court that the probability of two children from an affluent family suffering SIDS was 1 in 73 million. We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. They were then asked a leading question about how fast the car was going when it passed the yield sign. 26 The Innocence Project, DNA Exoneree Case Profiles,. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison. The detective also admitted making a similar comment to at least one other witness. Because she had already servednine years and four months of her initial life sentence, she was released following the change of conviction. The lineup photo from one of these lineups shows how suggestive it was: The other four men in the lineup were much older and bigger than Chester. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that, among other things, would have set up a task force to examine eyewitness testimony and establish voluntary guidelines to ensure that it was accurate. The FBI estimates that 521,196 of these arrests were for violent crimes.24 Accurate data on the number of crimes observed by eyewitnesses are not available. Psychological experiments have shown that lineup administrators who know who the suspect is end up cuing witnesses toward that person. Instrumental to the prosecutions theory was the testimony of at least twelve witnesses, each placing Flowers along a discrete portion of the route he was supposed to have traveled that day. Expert witnesses are often instructed in cases where expert evidence is necessary to enable the court to understand specific issues, such as capacity, intent, causation etc. Police said they believed Weger was a suspect in a rape that had occurred a few years earlier. What facts gave rise to the belief that Leiterman may have been wrongfully convicted based on contaminated evidence? In an effort to overwhelm Chester and break him down, he was placed in a lineup regarding two incidents that took place in 1959 in a nearby State Park called Deer Park, one of which was that rape case and the other was a purse snatching. In the Miller case, a. He added: 'I can tell you this in full confidence that our police and the security forces in Iran have not killed anyone with bullets or any other means in these riots.'. He claimed police did not have the power to use firearms in the riots. After . Thanks for reading Scientific American. I believe the remaining 25 states should act swiftly to prevent additional miscarriages of justice. Many believe that this conviction was based on contaminated DNA evidence. Miller was ultimately charged with rape, robbery and kidnapping. COVID origins? But when the witnesses had received a simple reinforcing comment following their identification (Good job, you got the guy), the mock jurors could no longer tell the difference between accurate and mistaken eyewitnesses. According to the prosecution on the day of the murder, at around 7 am, Flowers walked from his home on the West side of town all the way to a sewing factory parking lot on the East side of town, crossing Highway 51, one of the towns largest streets, while doing so. He served 47 years in prison before his conviction was vacated in 2018. What it means is that the malleability of memory can harm reliability. Nonetheless, the attendants mistakenly identified Miller in a subsequent police lineup. or debate this issue live on our message boards. Thus, Chester was charged with three separate felonies as a way to overwhelm him and break him down. 23 United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 230, 288 (1967). Laura Smalarz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. A "double-blind" lineup or photo-array is when the person interviewing the potential eyewitness does not which of the persons in a photo array or lineup is the actual suspect. These courts generally accept detailed descriptions of relevant scientific research findings to either attack or support eyewitness testimony.19 Other courts, meanwhile, leave the jury to determine the credibility of eyewitness testimony and insist that findings from scientific research in this area cannot help the jury to do so.20 to select the person they believe to be a prime suspect. What the cases of Miller and Heidelberg highlight is that witnesses are often wrong. Compiled by Ann Njarara, Bree Peilen, Daniel Neuman, Emory Cook, Linda Lin, and Perrin Lowrey, Introduction One eyewitness couldnt recall whether the detective had told him anything after he identified Grant, but the detective acknowledged telling that particular eyewitness good job following the identification. A Man Was Jailed For 20 Years Due To A Single Eyewitness Who Now Wants To Recant Antonio Mallet's conviction rested on testimony from one eyewitness who, in a new court filing, now says NYPD detectives assaulted him and threatened to lock him up if he didn't blame Mallet for the murder. Moreover, confirmatory feedback can alter witnesses memories of the original crime, making them less able to recognize the actual perpetrator when they see him again. Although the high accuracy of an initial ID made with high confidence is important to appreciate, the low accuracy of an ID made with low confidence may be even more important to appreciate. The case shed renewed light on the country's treatment of women, with a growing number of female Iranians choosing to flout the Sharia-based law to wear the hijab. Many eyewitnesses testified with high confidence despite earlier expressions of uncertainty.28. Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Expert witness evidence is not needed in all legal proceedings but it plays an important part in many cases. Any evidence can potentially be contaminated, including what is considered to be the gold standard of forensic evidence: DNA. 27 The Innocence Project, Eyewitness Identification,. Therefore, it is important that the individuals allowed to testify are accurate in their recollections. Gareth, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, is the series editor of Best American Infographics and can be reached at garethideas AT gmail.com or Twitter@garethideas. Of course, he knew that Lydell Grant was the one under suspicion. Instead, they asked that the six eyewitnesses who originally testified against Grant respond to his claims of innocence. 32 National Research Council, Identifying The Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification 38, 4-8 (2014). The psychiatrist formed an opinion of her mental state at the time of the homicide. They are child killers.'. Hale is an Emmy-nominated executive producer for several true-crime documentaries highlighting wrongful convictions. Alex Murdaugh's defense attorneys will deliver their closing arguments in his murder trial on Thursday as they seek to raise reasonable doubt about whether he killed his wife and son in 2021. Renowned Expert witnesses include doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other professionals who are instructed to give expert opinions in legal proceedings. A letter by UN Watch - a Geneva-based organization monitoring activities of the UN - urged all 193 members to leave the meeting. Some elements include the following: First, and most important of all, because the test itself contaminates memory, only the initial memory test provides uncontaminated results. 10 Manson v. Brathwaite, 432 U.S. 98, 114 (1977). Mahsa Amini, 22, died on September 16, three days after falling into a coma following her arrest, After the death of Mahsa Amini, Anti Iran protests have been held in many parts of the world. The NRC found that police officers and detectives are frequently uninformed of what the best practices concerning gathering eyewitness testimony are. To do this, proper testing protocols that reduce chances of contamination need to be followed. After killing the officer, the shooter fled the scene and a high-speed car chase ensued. Not only do such statements inflate eyewitnesses confidence in the accuracy of their identification, but they lead them to falsely remember having been that confident all along. This opinion differed from the opinions formed by the other professionals, who concluded that John Worboys should remain in prison. If New Jersey can have statewide guidelines, so can California. John Worboyss victims alleged that he assaulted them after offering them champagne which he had spiked with drugs. The variables include: viewing conditions (lighting-distance-duration), distracting stimuli (weapons-loud noises) and internal states of the observer (attention-motivation-skill-prejudice). I am currently involved in another case in which the failings of witness identification are starkly evident. 70 percent of the 349 wrongful convictions. 5 Brewer & Treyens, Role of Schemata in Memory for Places, Cognitive Psychology 13.2 (1981). bn. It is not uncommon for the Parole Board to instruct expert evidence from psychiatrists and psychologists. In assessing the reliability of eyewitness identification, federal and state courts are still divided on (1) whether expert testimony on eyewitness identification should be allowed under either Daubert or Frye and (2) the proper exercise of trial court discretion when deciding whether to admit such expert testimony.18 This created an inherent bias that made the lineup unfair, and likely affected the victims subsequent identification. Neighbors told arriving firefighters that they had heard a thunderous crash at about the same time as the blaze is believed to have begun. But faith in eyewitnesses runs so deep that despite the overwhelming proof of Grants innocence, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals initially refused his exoneration request. No comments have so far been submitted. 31 Elizabeth Loftus, Eyewitness Science and the Legal System, 14 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 110 (2018). In other cases, the circumstances of a purported witness identification may be flimsy; yet the prosecutors still rely on that identification, which is then presented as rock-solid evidence at trial. John Worboys worked as a cab driver and was charged with sexually assaulting several of his female passengers. After the rape, with the victim now locked in the trunk, the rapist attempted to drive the womans vehicle out of the parking garage but was prevented from doing so by the two parking lot attendants who recognized the victims car and noticed that she was not driving it. Instead of concluding that DNA evidence is inherently unreliable because of the contamination that apparently occurred in this case, a more reasonable conclusion would be that for DNA testing to be reliable, proper protocols must be followed. It comes just two days after diplomats walked out of a speech given by the Iranian minister to the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva. However, Solicitor, Marilyn Stowe, had concerns about the expert evidence of Professor Meadow. In 2011, Sally Challen was convicted of murdering her husband before Guildford Crown Court. EvgeniyShkolenko/iStock via Getty Images Plus, Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News/Chicago History Museum via Getty Images, Scientific best practices for conducting eyewitness lineups, smile when witnesses are looking at the suspect, no longer tell the difference between accurate and mistaken eyewitnesses, alter witnesses memories of the original crime, less able to recognize the actual perpetrator, is informative regarding the eyewitnesss accuracy, 25 states have adopted these core procedural reforms, Committee Member - MNF Research Advisory Committee, PhD Scholarship - Uncle Isaac Brown Indigenous Scholarship. the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime; the accuracy of the witnesss prior description of the criminal; the level of certainty demonstrated at the identification procedure; and. At his criminal trial, both parking lot attendants identified Miller as the perpetrator. It should be revived and approved. But theyve hit a snag. Do you ask other countries who are in our region but are allies of the United States the same kinds of questions that you're asking me about the women's hijab? Nevertheless, these subtle behavioral cues affect eyewitnesses decisions by making them more likely to choose the suspect. He was 19 at the time of that attack. While 30+ years of research is too much to summarize in a few paragraphs, we will outline the general problems with eyewitness testimony as well as some of them more major research that has been performed on the subject. According to the same theory, 33 years later, in 2002, in an almost inconceivable coincidence, evidence samples from Mixer, Ruelas and Leiterman just happened to be together again in the Michigan State Police Laboratory. Some courts have held it as an abuse of discretion for a trial judge to bar the defense from admitting expert testimony on eyewitness identification. Prosecutors, though, have no murder weapon, bloody clothes or eyewitnesses, leaving them to build their case about Murdaugh's murky timeline of his whereabouts when the crime happened in 2021 . 21 Commonwealth v. Walker, 625 Pa. 450, 47678 (2014). As of 2014, 44 states and all federal circuits, with the possible exception of the 11th Circuit, allow such expert testimony at the discretion of the trial judge.21, Eyewitness Testimony: Application in Court, The Manson v. Brathwaite test under the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution for assessing eyewitness identification evidence was established in 1977, before much applied research on eyewitness identification had been conducted. The processes at play in Lydell Grants case are predictable and unfortunately common. The witnesses trial testimony reveals a simple explanation for these high-confidence errors: All of the eyewitnesses received confirmatory feedback following their identification of Grant. An Iranian girl passed away and we were all very sorry about that. His offences led to him being named the black cab rapist by the UK press. This case raised important questions about the reliability of expert evidence. The attendants were also able to have a brief conversation with the driver before he fled on foot. The nearly simultaneous analyses of evidence from these three cases in the same crime lab in 2002a reunion, of sorts, among Mixer, Ruelas and Leiterman, who were ostensibly last together on the night of the murder in 1969was either an incredible coincidence or the Mixer evidence was contaminated with DNA from both Leiterman and Ruelas. 6 Wells, Memon, Penrod, Eyewitness Evidence: Improving Its Probative Value, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, (2006). 'In Iran we had an incident. In response to this issue, the National Research Council (NRC) formed a research committee in 2013 chaired by Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York and cognitive scientist, Thomas Albright of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.31 The group released their findings in 2014 in a report titled Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification. Kendall Taggart BuzzFeed News Reporter It is used to establish facts in a criminal investigation or prosecution. Expert evidence may be important in determining the right outcome. More and more research has come out in the last few decades indicating that there are many dangers to relying on eyewitnesses, from the uncertainty of relying on a persons memory all the way to how they are questioned at the police station. 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Some professionals have questioned whether this case has led to heightened caution when considering capacity and fitness in cases where dementia and cognitive impairment are diagnosed. It was the right decision on the time. Yes, the 1959 Matthiessen (Not Deer Park) State Park rape/robbery played a role in Wegers arrest (the rape victim ALSO ID Weger separately and BEFORE the line-up mentioned here), but it played NO role (not mentioned at all) in his trial or subsequent conviction. Confidence reported at trial after the eyewitness has received confirmatory feedback is not. Scientific best practices for conducting eyewitness lineups require that the person administering the lineup not know who the police suspect. In one clip an unidentified Iranian woman can be heard saying: 'They are without shame and should be embarrassed. Historically, eyewitness testimony has been in use not only in the United States and our penal system but all around the world. The parole board initially approved him for release. Arnaud, Celia Henry. Finally, a witness may have more difficulty making a correct identification when he and the suspect are of different races. The Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran claimed she had a heart attack at a police station, collapsed, and fell into a coma before being transferred to a hospital. Type above and press Enter to search. Women in Iran have all the necessary required freedoms within the framework of the law, he claims, but says our interview is a confrontation: This is not the way to conduct an interview. pic.twitter.com/XKkC5uWYyj, Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian smiled as he chastised CNN host Christiane Amanpour, telling her 'this is not the way to conduct an interview', CNN host Amanpour laid into the Iranian foreign minister over his country's record on women's rights. The perpetrator had a brief conversation with the parking lot attendants and then fled the scene. Finally, almost a year later, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared Grant actually innocent on May 19, 2021. There, the prosecution claims that Flowers killed the people inside Tardys, stole money from the stole, and then went back home, stopping to buy chips and beer at a convenience store on Highway 51 on the way. The rebuttal comes more than a month into the murder trial of Murdaugh, the 54-year-old disbarred personal injury attorney and member of a dynastic family in South Carolina's Lowcountry, where his . Expert Evidence In Family Cases Where Spouse Is Unable To Return To Work Due To Illness, The revised psychopathy checklist (PCL-R), Proving Automatism Defences In Criminal Cases, Understanding the Value of an Occupational Therapist Expert Witness, Causation in personal injury or medical negligence, Assessments of sexual offending, violent behaviour offending, arson, and stalking. Instructions given to eyewitnesses should be clear, simple and standardized across jurisdictions. Juries are particularly prone to being swayed by eyewitness testimony, as evidenced in the Curtis Flowers case. Published: 00:56 EST, 2 March 2023 | Updated: 01:01 EST, 2 March 2023. 22 Edwin M. Borchard, Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice (New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1932). Confidence collected at the time of an identification during a double-blind lineup procedure is informative regarding the eyewitnesss accuracy. In Winona, Mississippi on July 16, 1996, four people were shot and killed at Tardy furniture store. Eyewitness testimony can hold a lot of weight with jurors. Until he was released on parole, the 81-year-old Weger ranked as the second longest-held inmate in Illinois prison system. Current procedures for collecting and assessing evidence from eyewitnesses are often not designed to minimize contamination.This problem does not apply to other kinds of forensic evidence. But in 2006, DNA testing on the victims slip exonerated Miller and established the identify of another man, Robert Weeks, as the real perpetrator. Dan tries to find out more about Mustafa . The modern test for the admissibility of eyewitness testimony at a criminal trial under the Due Process Clause was established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Manson v. Brathwaite in 1977. In the sad case of the 1960 Starved Rock murders, there were EIGHT confessions by Chester Weger made to different people at different times, including a re-enactment of the crime at the scene covered by more than a dozen reporters/photographers. Knowledge awaits. It turns out, back in 1998, just days after the crime, the NYPD had a main suspect for the murder of Al Ward: a man named Mustafa. Pregnant), Left and got about 1-2 blocks away and saw a man running west, away from downtown, it was her neighbor Flowers, Clemy pointed it out to Roy but Roy did not recognize him, Couldnt remember his clothes or shoes, did not describe seeing blood on him, Latarsha, Clemys cousin, remains convinced that Clemy made up the story because she felt pressured by law enforcement and because she might be able to get money Latarsha was also taken by the police at 19 to be asked questions and Johnson implied that she might get some of the reward money (30k) if she corroborated, Saw a man running across the street 1-2 blocks away that day of the murders, he was alone (not with Clemy) and it was earlier in the morning and when he was with Clemy later, they did not see anybody running, Law enforcement came and found Roy and he ended up giving a statement to John Johnson, Was shown Flowers picture (school picture) ONLY Flowers asked if that was the person Roy saw running Roy said no and John Johnson pushed Roy that it was Flowers and that Clemy was with him when it happened eventually Roy said he broke down and agreed to the story because he wanted to get out of there (he was afraid of Johnson), After that, Johnson recorded Clemy telling her story of seeing Flowers running away from downtown. 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