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#170 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony

#170 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony

FromWrongful Conviction


#170 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony

FromWrongful Conviction

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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Nov 11, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Josh Dubin discusses Eyewitness Testimony with renowned psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies human memory, specifically the malleability of memory, a huge factor in cases where eyewitness testimony is used as evidence.

It turns out that memories, just like other forms of evidence, can be manipulated, contaminated, and planted.

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Released:
Nov 11, 2020
Format:
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Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit – some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.