Criminal Law and Procedure columnist Barry Kamins reviews the new best practices for identification procedures by witnesses, which reflect the results of substantial scientific research in the area of ...

Witness misidentifications, often caused by police misconduct, lead to wrongful convictions. Courts assess whether identification procedures were unnecessarily suggestive and reliable. While police ...

Police are trying to identify a man who they say shot himself during a standoff on a downtown Rainsville street this afternoon. It began in Scottsboro Alabama when a plate reader identified a stolen ...

Officials identified the driver of a U-Haul truck accused of killing a University of Delaware student and injuring eight other people in a chain-reaction crash in Newark, Delaware, on Tuesday.