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SADO - The law & science of eyewitness identification: Using social science to litigate unreliable identification evidence before trial, at trial, and on appeal


Time: June 3, 2025 - 12-1:30pm
Location: Zoom

Please join SADO's Criminal Defense Resource Center and Wayne County for a lunchtime training on The Law & Science of Eyewitness Identification: Using social science to litigate unreliable identification evidence before trial, at trial, and on appeal with Matthew Wasserman from the Innocence Project. 

This training will provide defense attorneys with tools with which to suppress unreliable eyewitness identifications, mitigate their impact if admitted at trial, and to challenge older convictions based on scientific research. The training will address strategies to incorporate psychological research into suppression arguments under Manson v Brathwaite, 432 US 98 (1977)– as well as challenges to the Manson framework. The training will address working with eyewitness identification experts pre-trial and at trial, jury instructions, and novel post-conviction claims that eyewitness memory science constitutes newly discovered evidence.


Questions? Contact CDRC at cdrc@sado.org.