For over one hundred years, research psychologists have fought to have the modern understanding of human memory accepted in the legal system. True Witness: Cops, Courts, Science, and the Battle Against Misidentification, published in January 2005 by Palgrave MacMillan, and available through Amazon.com, tells the story of that battle, a battle which only now, after a tragic litany of wrongful convictions exposed by DNA testing, is beginning to result in research-based eyewitness investigation procedures designed to protect the innocent and catch the guilty.

This web page, still under construction, is an effort to gather for general readers, police and sheriff's investigators, social scientists, prosecutors, defenders and judges some of the latest material bearing on the reforms described in True Witness.

For consultations, legal representation, requests for speaking, journalism,  or commentary, please contact:

James Doyle
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True Witness lectures:

The January Series, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 20, 2006, (Hear the Calvin book-talk on the Web:  http://www.calvin.edu/january/2006/doyle2.htm), Keynote Address, American Psychology Law Society, St. Petersburg, Florida, March 3, 2006, Loyola Law School, Chicago, April 20, 2006; Northwestern University School of Law, Short Courses for Lawyers In Criminal Cases, Chicago, July 24, 2006, NACDL/Innocence Project, A New Architecture for Eyewitness Trials, NYU Law School, March 14-15, 2008.