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Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory

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Elizabeth Loftus has spent decades exposing flaws in eyewitness testimony. Her ideas are gaining fresh traction in the US legal system.

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Costandi, M. Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory. Nature 500, 268–270 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/500268a

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