If Pennsylvania allows expert witnesses to offer opinion on circumstances where research shows that eyewitnesses may be unreliable, investigators would have to take extra steps to ensure that they have adequate evidence to convict a suspect beyond a reasonable doubt, state Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery said during oral argument Wednesday.
McCaffery, a former homicide detective, said that no investigator wants uncertainty that he or she may have arrested the wrong person.
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