Atlanta DUI Defense » DNA evidence http://www.4georgiadui.com North Atlanta DUI Defense Attorney Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:07:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Eyewitness Testimony Not Always Reliable http://www.4georgiadui.com/2007/05/02/eyewitness-testimony-not-always-reliable/ http://www.4georgiadui.com/2007/05/02/eyewitness-testimony-not-always-reliable/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 13:56:41 +0000 admin http://host.jonathanginsberg.com/~gadui/?p=32 I recently came across an interesting article in the Baltimore Sun that addressed the issue of eyewitness testimony. According to a lawyer who works for the Innocence Project – a group of lawyers who work to reopen cases to introduce DNA evidence – seventy percent of successful exonerations involved convictions based on eyewitness testimony.

This does not mean that eyewitness testimony is always bad – it does mean that there are legitimate grounds (and perhaps reasonable doubt) to challenge a case when the only evidence is eyewitness testimony.

[tags] eyewitness identification, reasonable doubt, DNA evidence [/tags]

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