Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: identity, mistaken
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061096113
ISBN-13: 9780061096112

Nothing can prepare criminal attorney Bennie Rosato for her new client, Alice Connolly, accused of murdering her lover, a highly decorated police detective. Connolly, who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Bennie, tells the astonished lawyer, "Pleased to meet you. I’m your twin." But Bennie grew up an only child. She doesn’t have a twin.Or does she?Bennie takes the case and plunges into the mystery of the murder, as well as the secret of her own identity. Not until the verdict is in will she finally learn the truth.

Authors:Brian L. Cutler, Steven D. Penrod,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: law, psychology, eyewitness, identification, mistaken
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995-08-25
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0521445728
ISBN-13: 9780521445726

The criminal justice system has devised several procedural safeguards to protect defendants from erroneous conviction resulting from mistaken eyewitness identification. Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law reviews the empirical research bearing on the adequacy of those safeguards. This body of literature converges on the conclusion that traditional safeguards such as presence of counsel at lineups, cross-examination, and judges’ instructions, are ineffective safeguards against mistaken eyewitness identification. Expert psychological testimony on eyewitness memo

Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: case, brothers, brixton, identity, mistaken
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2010-05-04
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 141697816X
ISBN-13: 9781416978169

Steve Brixton is an average 7th grader. Until one Saturday at the library when he finds himself caught up in America’s most top secret case.