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Criminal Legal News: November, 2025

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Volume 8, Number 11

In this issue:

  1. The Malleable Mind in the Courtroom: Why Confident Eyewitnesses Often Provide the Least Reliable Evidence (p 1)

The Malleable Mind in the Courtroom: Why Confident Eyewitnesses Often Provide the Least Reliable Evidence

by David M. Reutter

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

– Marcel Proust

When jurors weigh evidence in a criminal trial, few types of evidence are more persuasive than a witness pointing across a courtroom and declaring with absolute certainty: “That’s the ...

 

 

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