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Video:

Video 1: Scott Fraser on Why Eyewitnesses Get It Wrong
https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_fraser_the_problem_with_eyewitness_testimony?language=en
Description: Scott Fraser studies how humans remember crimes--and bear witness to them. In this powerful talk, which focuses on a deadly shooting at sunset, he suggests that even close-up eyewitnesses to a crime can create “memories” they could not have seen. Why? Because the brain abhors a vacuum.

Video 2: The Ingenious and “Dystopian” DNA Technique Police Used to Hunt the “Golden State Killer” Suspect
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/27/golden-state-killer-dna-website-gedmatch-was-used-to-identify-joseph-deangelo-as-suspect-police-say/?utm_term=.0c87733fe3f1
Description: Police used DNA information on a genealogy website to track down the Golden State Killer suspect.

Audio:

Audio 1: A Judge's Guidance Makes Jurors Suspicious Of Any Eyewitness
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/26/464300484/a-judges-guidance-makes-jurors-suspicious-of-any-eyewitness
Description: The state of New Jersey has been trying to help jurors better assess the reliability of eyewitness testimony, but a recent study suggests that the effort may be having unintended consequences.

Audio 2: Reports Find Record Number of Exonerations, and Race Plays a Major Role
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/03/07/exonerations-race
Description: Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with University of Michigan’s law professor Samuel Gross, who cowrote one of the studies, and Exonerated Nation founder Obie Anthony (@obieanthony), who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

Web:

Web 1: The National Registry of Exonerations
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx
Description: Registry of all exonerated cases in the United States.

Web 2: DNA Evidence Basics
https://www.nij.gov/topics/forensics/evidence/dna/basics/Pages/welcome.aspx
Description: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) webpage on the basics of DNA evidence.