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The Case of Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony
📻 Episode #408
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Nov 20, 2023
About This Episode
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.
The Case
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.
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science.
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00:03:55“Speaker 3: officer says he has some questions and asks you if Speaker 3: you'll come to the police station with him. When you Speaker 3: get there, the officer takes you into a small room Speaker 3: with a table and a few chairs. He says, Wait here, Speaker 3: you'll stand in as part of a police lineup, and”
00:16:39“Speaker 3: to prove just how unreliable eyewitness testimony is and why Speaker 3: it shouldn't be trusted as the gold standard of evidence. Speaker 3: In a courtroom or in a police lineup. Speaker 2: Many people, unfortunately, believe that memory works like a recording device. Speaker 2: You take in the information, you record it, you just”
00:28:47“Speaker 3: not be a conscious lie. It may just be that Speaker 3: their perception and there what they think is their reliable Speaker 3: memory is just not correct. Now, look, I have my Speaker 3: own ideas, and the Innocence Project, as you know, has Speaker 3: done a ton of policy work around this and trying”
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