Entertainment & Sports
Apr. 21, 2023
Stream it Tonight! The Wrong Man (1956)
Eyewitness identification experts use the term “weapon-focus” to denote the phenomenon that witnesses tend to pay more attention to a weapon than to a perpetrator.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why Watch? One of Director Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite themes was the pursuit of innocent people by spies and the police. In this film the pursuer is the criminal justice process.
An armed man holds up three clerks in an insurance office. At a lineup the clerks mistakenly identify musician Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda) as the robber and he is charged with armed robbery. The slowness of the mysterious pretrial process adds to Balestrero’s ...
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