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Will Pennsylvania or the United States Supreme Court Require More Stringent Safeguards in Eyewitness Identification Cases?

Filed under: Criminal Law, Death Penalty Cases Tags: by Steven F. Fairlie @ November 4, 2011

The issue of eyewitness identification has been a hot topic in Pennsylvania’s legal community lately. New Jersey’s Supreme Court recently ruled that several changes need to be made to their eyewitness identification procedures to ensure that innocent individuals are not wrongly convicted. Three quarters of the individuals who have been exonerated by DNA evidence were […]

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