OSGOODE HALL PRESENTS ANOTHER IMPORTANT CONFERENCE: "GOOD SCIENCE, BAD EVIDENCE? NEW PERSPECTIVE ON RELIABILITY OF EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS."

Last May, the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University presented an excellent conference on "expert forensic evidence in criminal proceedings: avoiding wrongful convictions," which offered considerable grist for the Charles Smith Blog.

Not content to bask in the success of that conference, Osgoode Hall is presenting on Saturday, December 5, 2009, a conference called "Good science, bad evidence? New perspectives on the reliability of evidence in criminal proceedings" which looks equally promising - especially with the participation of Elizabeth Loftus, one of my heroes.

This conference will entertain numerous topics of interest to the readers of this Blog, including: perception, judgment and decision-making - the power of suggestion in expert forensic opinion; earwitness identification and recall; manufactured memories; the confidence of witnesses; the use of syndromes, profiles and indicators; and, "false confesssions, "Mr. Big" and the Reid technique of interrogation.

More information on the conference can be found at:

http://www.osgoodepd.ca/cle/2009_criminal_proceedings/index.html

Harold Levy...hlevy15@gmail.com;