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  1. Eyewitness errors ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/ ) – Explore the story of Ronald Cotton's wrongful conviction through erroneous eyewitness testimony. Hear from the eyewitness who now recognizes her error. Try a photo lineup yourself and more at this web site associated with PBS' Frontline show "What Jennifer Saw.”
  2. Police Interrogations, Eyewitness Identification, Jury Decision-making ( http://www.williams.edu/Psychology/Faculty/Kassin/research/default.htm ) – One of the leading researchers in this area, Saul Kassin, makes available a lot of his and his colleagues' publications related to psychology and the law.
  3. Innocence Project ( http://www.criminaljustice.org/PUBLIC/cardozo.htm ) – An "effort to spearhead the plight of the innocent imprisoned was started by NACDL members, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, co-chairs of the NACDL DNA Task Force and founders of the Innocence Project at the Cardozo Law School in New York.”
  4. Lineup Guidelines ( http://129.186.143.73/faculty/gwells/Illinoisrecommendations.pdf ) - from the Illinois Governor's Commission - starting with recommendation #10 - a good description of the types of issues that can bias lineups and strategies to overcome these biases
  5. The Eyewitness Consortium ( http://eyewitnessconsortium.utep.edu/default.htm ) - a new site still under construction, but it looks to be a good place to go to find eyewitness testimony news and research, bibliographies, cases, media and more - some good stuff there already
  6. "Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement" ( http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/178240.pdf ) - from the U.S. Dept. of Justice (1999)
  7. "Innocence Lost: The Plea" ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/ ) - PBS Frontline show on the fascinating case of preschool workers in North Carolina accused of child sexual abuse on the basis of children's testimony.
  8. DNA Easy ( http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/riley/riley.html ) - "DNA Testing: An Introduction For Non-Scientists: An Illustrated Explanation" by Donald Riley, (1998), from Scientific Testimony , an online journal
  9. "The Case for Innocence" ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/case/ ) - "Why do inmates remain in prison despite DNA evidence which exonerates them with near certainty?" PBS Frontline show (2000) explores this question.





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