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The Novel New Jersey Eyewitness Instruction Induces Skepticism but Not Sensitivity.

Athan P Papailiou; David V Yokum; Christopher T Robertson · 2015 · PLoS ONE

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Abstract

In recent decades, social scientists have shown that the reliability of eyewitness identifications is much worse than laypersons tend to believe. Although courts have only recently begun to react to this evidence, the New Jersey judiciary has reformed its jury instructions to notify jurors about the frailties of human memory, the potential for lineup administrators to nudge witnesses towards suspects that they police have already identified, and the advantages of alternative lineup procedures, including blinding of the administrator. This experiment tested the efficacy of New Jersey's jury ins

Abstract by Athan P Papailiou; David V Yokum; Christopher T Robertson, PLoS ONE (2015) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0142695