Reliability of eye witness testimony (DEBATE)

• what is of huge importance in legal proceedings?

  reliability of EWT
• what is the innocence project?

  project works towards clearing names of wrongly convicted prisoners
• what does the innocence project state?

  EWT no.1 cause of wrongful convictions which leads to wrongful imprisonment for many years
• what do statistics say?

  EW misidentifications have known to play role in over 70% convictions - overturned on basis of DNA
• what do wrongful convictions lead to?

  up to 100 innocent people being wrongly convicted each year of violent or sexual crime in UK
• therefore what is it vital we understand?

  how memory works, what can alter it, how we can prevent this from happening