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Expert evidence in the UK

Eyewitness testimony A US case study

A US case study

Daniel Bogart and Elizabeth Loftus consider the way psychologists have enhanced the value of eyewitness testimony in US courts

On arainy Baltimore night in 1998, two teenage friends, Toni Bullock and Tyeisha Powell, were assaulted by a man carrying a knife. Powell managed to free herself, but her friend Bullock was not so fortunate. She lost her life that night, at the all-too-young age of 16.

After managing to escape, Powell described the attacker to the police, and they created a sketch of the perpetrator. A week later, a person who had recently been in police custody told the authorities that he saw a man in jail who looked like the person in the sketch.

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