Eyewitness Memory for Stressful Events: Methodological Quandaries and Ethical Dilemmas

IThe Devlin Report was a product of a British committee convened during the 1970s to examine cases of wrongful conviction. The committee expressed reservations about the accuracy of convictions based upon eyewitness testimony alone and recommended that a statute be devised to direct the trier of fact that it is not reliable to convict upon eyewitness testimony evidence unless the circumstances are exceptional or the evidence is corroborated by information from another source.