Studies have found that the memories of witnesses to violence can be highly unreliable, notes Professor Laura Wexler, director of the Photographic Memory Workshop at Yale University in an op-ed titled “Eyewitness testimony often lies” published Sept. 21 on the CNN website.
“I know. I had my own bout with mistaken eyewitness testimony. … And I got it wrong,” she writes.
Read the complete op-ed on the CNN website.