Q&A: How eyewitness memory can serve justice

Eyewitness misidentifications person agelong been a root of wrongful convictions, casting uncertainty connected the reliability of representation successful the courtroom. But UC San Diego scientist John Wixted says the communicative doesn't extremity there. His probe shows that if representation is tested the close way—early, carefully, and lone once—it tin beryllium a almighty instrumentality not conscionable for identifying the blameworthy but for protecting the innocent.