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Criminal

Aug. 31, 2011

One researcher judges recall

A significant new ruling demanding caution with eyewitness identification testimony grew in large part from groundbreaking work by UCI psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


For more than 30 years, UCI psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus has been challenging people's confidence in their memories. So it's not surprising that her research was cited nearly a dozen times in last week's groundbreaking New Jersey Supreme Court decision challenging the justice system's confidence in eyewitness identification of criminal suspects.


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