Browsing PER: Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal by Subject "Wrongful conviction"
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The dangers of convictions based on a single piece of forensic evidence
(PER/PELJ, 2020)The overall goal of the criminal justice system is to ensure that perpetrators of crimes are duly punished and that victims of crimes are duly exonerated. As part of the effort to achieve this goal, the forensic disciplines ... -
Judicial understanding of the reliability of eyewitness evidence: a tale of two cases
(2016)One of the most significant consequences of the use of post-conviction DNA testing in the criminal justice system has been the growing recognition that eyewitness identification testimony is simply not as reliable as it ...