Crime Film
Documentaries
| fall | 2018 |
James R. Elkins
Readings & Recommended Videos
"Brother's Keeper"
Readings
"Best Brothers: The Delbert Ward Case," in Cyril Wecht, Cause
of Death 235-259 (Onyx, 1994) [Wecht testified for
the defense in the Delbert Ward murder trial] [Cyril
Wecht] [if you want to read Cyril Wecht's account of his involvement
in the Ward case as an expert witness before we screen the film, send
me a note, and I can email the chapter to you]
Thomas M. Kemple, Litigating Illiteracy: The Media, the Law, and The
People of the State of New York v. Adelbert Ward, 10 Can. J.L. &
Soc. 73 1995) [if you want to read this article before
we screen the file, it is available on HeinOnLine]
Readings (and Recommended Videos) Archive
"Murder
on a Sunday Morning"
Readings: Eyewitness Identification
Paul Kix, "Recognition: How a Travesty Led to Criminal-Justice
Innovation in Texas," The New Yorker, Jan. 18, 2016 [online
text]
Neil Vidmar, et.al., Rethinking Reliance on Eyewitness
Confidence, 94 (1) Judicature 16 (2010) [online text]
Recommended Videos: Eyewitness Identification
Getting
It Right
[7:42
mins.] [The Innocence Project]
The
Dangerous Unreliability of Eyewitnesses [6:51 mins.]
[with Barry Scheck]
Eyewitness
Identifications Lead to Wrongful Convictions
[2:28
mins.] [Karen Newirth, staff attorney, Innocence Project]
How
to Challenge an Eyewitness Identification
[2:21
mins.]
The
Fiction of Memory | Elizabeth Loftus [17:36 mins.]
[TED Talk] [presentation begins with Loftus discussing
her work on the Steve Titus case] [2nd
version of the TED presentation]
Eyewitness
[13:00 mins.] [CBS "60 Minutes] Pt2
[13:06
mins.] [Ronald Cotton] [Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes,
CBS News, March 8, 2009. A report on the use of eyewitness testimony
and the attention drawn to the unreliability of eyewitness identification
following the prevelance of eyewitness identifcations in DNA exonerations
cases. Stahl focuses on the case of Ronald Cotton, who was falsely accused
of rape.] [The jury took only 40 minutes to reach its decision to convict
Ronald Cotton.] [Prof. Gary Wells, the researcher who has focused on
eyewitness identification, is interviewed by Stahl. For reference to
Prof. Wells's work: Prof.
Gary L. Wells] [On Jennifer Thompson and her misidentification of
Ronald Cotton, see, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Ronald Cotton,
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption (New York:
St. Martin's Press, 2009)] [PBS Frontline, February, 1997: What
Jennifer Saw]
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