By: James P. Flynn
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a lengthy, sweeping decision on August 24th on the standards for evaluating eyewitness testimony in criminal cases that is garnering national, and even international, attention. See NY Times report by clicking here; Wall Street Journal report by clicking here; Reuters report by clicking here. Though the case entitled State v. Larry Henderson and its companion case entitled State v. Cecilia, both available here, involved eyewitness identification testimony, the Supreme Court dealt at great length with more general issues eyewitness testimony and “how memory works.” … Continue Reading
