An Overview of Factors Empirically Demonstrated to Impact the Reliability of Eyewitness Identifications
This course reviews the research-demonstrated factors most likely to affect the reliability of eyewitnesses. The factors are discussed in the context of original research as well as applied to real-world criminal cases and photospreads.
Professor of Psychology
Trent Terrell has been a professor of psychology at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX since 2008. He has published numerous papers on eyewitness memory and eyewitness identification. Trent has testified as a memory expert in over 40 criminal cases in Texas, and consulted on over 150, ranging from petty theft to capital murder. He has given CLEs on eyewitness memory to the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the National District Attorneys Association in Houston, and the Center for American and International Law in Plano, TX. He has also given online CLEs to Lawline, LawPractice CLE, and MyLaw CLE. Trent has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a master’s degree in Neuroscience, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, all from Baylor University. He lives in Temple, TX with his wife Rosemary and their three children.
