Experts

  • Steven Drizin
    Steven Drizin is a Clinical Professor at Northwestern Law School where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He is also the Assistant Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic, and since March 2004, has been serving as the Legal Director of the Clinic's renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions.Read more...
  • Saul Kassin
    Saul Kassin is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and a part time Massachusetts Professor of Psychology at Williams College. Several years ago, Kassin pioneered the scientific study of false confessions by devising the taxonomy now used to distinguish among three types of false confessions and developing experimental paradigms to test why innocent people are targeted for interrogation, why they confess, and the impact this evidence has on juries.Read more...
  • Richard Leo
    Richard Leo works as a Law Professor at the University of San Francisco. Leo regularly serves as a litigation consultant and/or expert witness in criminal and civil trials. He has worked on high profile cases involving false confessions, including the cases of Michael Crowe, Earl Washington, the Norfolk Four, and two of the Central Park jogger defendants, as well as numerous lesser-known cases with victims of coercive interrogation.Read more...
  • Richard Ofshe
    Richard Ofshe is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the advisory board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation advocacy organization, and is known for his expert testimony relating to coercion in small groups, confessions, and interrogations. Ofshe has been characterized as a "world-renowned expert on influence interrogation.Read more...
  • Gisli H. Gudjonsson
    Gisli H. Gudjonsson is from the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He created the Gudjonsson suggestibility scale to measure how succeptable someone is to coercion during an interrogation. From:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisli_H.Read more...
  • Allison Redlich
    Allison Redlich is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. She joined the faculty of the School of Criminal Justice in the fall of 2008. She has two main research foci. The first concerns interrogation methods (police and military) and their potential to produce false confessions. Dr.Read more...
  • Matthew B. Johnson
    Matthew B. Johnson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.  Professor Johnson's training is in clinical psychology.  He is widely published in the area of interrogation and false confessions, as well as in other areas involving psychology and law.Read more...
  • Lonnie Soury
    Lonnie Soury is a highly respected media expert with experience in high profile and complex criminal and civil litigation. He has a particular expertise in wrongful convictions issues. He has worked closely and collaboratively with some of the country's top law firms, legal organizations, prominent attorneys and their clients. Soury led the public campaign to free Marty Tankelff in New York and is currently working with Damein Echols, on death row in the West Memphis 3 case.Read more...
  • Brian Cutler, Ph.D.
    Brian Cutler is Professor in the Faculty of Social Science & Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is Past President of the American Psychology-Law Society and served as Editor of the prestigious journal Law and Human Behavior. Cutler has also edited Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons from Psychological Research, the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, and the American Psychological Association's Handbook of Forensic Psychology.Read more...
  • Dr. Iris Blandon-Gitlin
    Dr. Blandon-Gitlin conducts empirical research on issues at the intersection of psychology and law. Currently she has projects investigating (a) conditions under which memories for non-experienced events (i.e., false memories) are more likely to develop, (b) aspects of children's suggestibility, (c) validity of verbal lie detection methods, (d) the role cognitive load (mental load) plays in liars' verbal and non-verbal behaviors, (e) jurors' perceptions of police interrogation tactics and their evaluation of confession evidence elicited from those tactics.Read more...
  • Dr. Mark Costanzo
    Dr. Mark Costanzo, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. Areas of Expertise: Death Penalty, Expert Testimony, Non-Verbal Communication, Social Psychology.Read more...
  • Dr. Daniel Reisberg
    Dr. Daniel Reisberg, Patricia & Clifford Lunneborg Professor of Psychology - Perception, cognition, psychology, law.Read more...
  • Dr. Deborah Davis
    Psychology and Law: Witness memory, False confessions, Issues of sexual consent, Rules of evidence, Jury research.Read more...