Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2008
ISSN
0163-1411
Publisher
Massachusetts Bar Association
Language
en-US
Abstract
This article traces the impact of the new scientific learning upon police eyewitness identification procedures in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Over the past 25 years, experimental psychologists have devised more reliable techniques for gathering eyewitness identification evidence than have been traditionally used by police. Massachusetts has over 350 autonomous municipal police departments, plus approximately 39 college campus police departments, the state police, and the MBTA (transit) Police Department. The decision how to investigate crime rests principally with the police chief responsible for each department. How does such a system of policing absorb new, scientifically superior methods of investigation?
Recommended Citation
Stanley Z. Fisher,
Eyewitness Identification Reform in Massachusetts
,
in
91
Massachusetts Law Review
52
(2008).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1084
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Comments
This article originally printed in the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Massachusetts Law Review Issue Vol. 91, No. 2.