Our justice system relies heavily on eyewitness testimony, forensic analysis and confession evidence to decide criminal cases. Professor Franklin can explain why all of these have been found to contribute significantly to wrongful convictions and how we can begin to protect the innocent from these sorts of errors.
Additionally, in the case surrounding Steven Avery, Professor Franklin shares:
"The tremendous interest shown by the public in the cases of Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, provide great opportunities to examine the criminal justice system through the lens of human psychology. There is much opportunity for error, forgetting, coercion, bias, and deliberate deception within a criminal justice system that relies on human players. Decades of research by cognitive and social psychologists allow us to understanding and predict such phenomena -- and for many cases, to develop remedies to protect against them."
Professor Nancy Franklin, of the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University in New York, is an expert in eyewitness error, false confessions, flawed investigation, and juror decision making that can lead to wrongful convictions. She directs her own laboratory in human cognition and memory, and she has been invited to consult in more than 400 cases in Criminal, Family, Supreme, Superior, and Federal Courts of New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Maryland, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
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