Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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What Are the Factors That Determined the 1983 Case?
Even then, though, even though there was greater receptivity to the idea, the notion of allowing expert testimony on the science of memory into the court room. There still, there still was not as full an appreciation o the problem as we would see years later with a developments in dna. Because it's those dna cases that prove that these hundreds of people are actually innocent. And when those cases have been analyzed and the major cause of those wrongful convictions is faulty eye witness testimony, then i thinkta,. the legal field began to wake up and and want to really do something about reformst so this we're going back to 19 83.
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