Eyewitness Identification

State of Oregon vs. Samuel Adam Lawson

Amicus brief urging the Oregon Supreme Court to change the framework governing the admission of eyewitness identification evidence.

State of New Jersey vs. Larry R. Henderson

Amicus brief urging the New Jersey Supreme Court to change the framework governing the admission of eyewitness identification evidence.

Rudolph Young v. James Conway

Amicus brief challenging the admissibility of unreliable eyewitness identification evidence.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Jeremy Gomes; Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Kenneth Johnson; Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Walter Crayton

Amicus brief urging the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to change the framework governing the admission of eyewitness identification evidence.

Quintin Morris vs. Rick Hill, Warden

Amicus brief urging the court to consider a procedurally barred actual innocence claim.

People of the State of New York vs. Anthony Oddone

Amicus support for the right of the defense to call an expert witness in the area of eyewitness identification.

State of Vermont vs. Harold D. Porter, Jr

Amicus brief urging the Vermont Supreme Court to change the framework governing the admission of eyewitness identification evidence.

State of Ohio vs. Ricardo Woods

Pre-trial challenge to the admissibility of unreliable eyewitness identification evidence.

National Academy of Sciences Eyewitness Identification Report

The Innocence Project’s submission to the NAS Committee on Scientific Approaches to Understanding and Maximizing the Validity and Reliability of Eyewitness Identification in Law Enforcement and the Courts.

Innocence Network Comments on Massachusetts Eyewitness Identification Jury Instructions

Comments submitted by the Innocence Network to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules Committee regarding jury instructions on eyewitness identification evidence.

Forensic Science

People of the State of New York vs. John Doe

Pre-trial Frye challenge to the admissibility of bite mark evidence.

Eddie Lee Howard vs. State of Mississippi

Post-conviction actual innocence case involving discredited bite mark evidence.

State of Connecticut vs. Taneisha Irving

Pre-trial Porter/Daubert challenge to the admissibility of bite mark evidence.

State of Arizona vs. Jason Derek Krause

Post-conviction actual innocence case involving comparative bullet lead analysis.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. John Doe

Post-conviction actual innocence challenge to hair microscopy evidence involving an FBI analyst.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Geordano Rodriguez

Amicus brief educating the court about wrongful convictions stemming from forensic lab scandals.

State of Wisconsin v. Michael R. Griep

Amicus brief supporting defendant’s right to cross examine an expert witness.

Glossip v. Gross

Amicus brief in the Supreme Court involving unreliable scientific evidence used to evaluate the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s three-drug protocol used to carry out executions.

New Hampshire v. Breest

Post-conviction actual innocence case involving discredited neutron activation analysis evidence.

 

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