S12 Ep12: Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony
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Show Notes
Josh Dubin discusses Eyewitness Testimony with renowned psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies human memory, specifically the malleability of memory, a huge factor in cases where eyewitness testimony is used as evidence.
It turns out that memories, just like other forms of evidence, can be manipulated, contaminated, and planted.
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