Eyewitness testimony is commonly a key turning point that dooms the villain in fiction about crime. Many people deem eyewitness testimony to be a highly reliable source of information, but is this really true? Over the past few decades, science has allowed us to understand the fallible nature of memory much better, and now even the United States Supreme Court is taking notice. Here's an interesting article on this topic from the New York Times.
34 Years Later, Supreme Court Will Revisit Eyewitness IDs
