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

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Judicial error -- United States.

Eyewitness identification -- United States.

DNA fingerprinting -- United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

Witnesses.

1. As sure as I can be

2. The lawyer alone is obdurate: Professor Munsterberg battles Dean Wigmore

3. The lawyers' art: bad verdicts from good witnesses

4. Nobody likes a smartass: Bob Buckhout joins the battle

5. The book on the street: the cops, the courts, and the eyewitnesses

6. We took Loftus seriously: Elizabeth Loftus and the science of memory

7. The way we look at seeing: the accelerating study of eyewitness memory

8. The government wins when justice is done in the courts: three prosecutors

9. DNA to the rescue (of some)

10. Break out shot: Gary Wells and the system

11. A technical working group: the police craft a new book

12. A road ahead: the continuing study of wrongful convictions

13. An endgame: looking back on Gary Graham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781403964304

xii, 223 p.