Race an issue with witness IDs
August 19, 2008
Cross racial ID’s in which one race identifies another are leading to several innocent people being sent to jail based on misidentifications with those winding up in jail often being African American.
“The majority race is not as good at identifying minorities as it is its own race. This is hard-wired in some way that we don’t completely understand. But the phenomenon should be presented to the jury,” said Barry Scheck, co-founder of The Innocence Project. Read the entire story by clicking the link below:
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