Associate Professor, Psychological Science and Counseling, Austin Peay State University
Dr. Emily Pica is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Science and Counseling at Austin Peay State University. Currently, she serves as the undergraduate program coordinator. Broadly, her research focuses on the contributing factors of wrongful convictions, perceptions of exonerees, and post-exoneration experiences. Her secondary lines of research examine factors that impact eyewitness identification and juror decision making.

Eyewitness misidentification is the leading cause of known wrongful convictions
Nov 25, 2022 14:44 pm UTC| Law
Blackstones ratio, developed by jurist William Blackstone, states that: Better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. David Milgaard, Leighton Hay and Steven Truscott have all been wrongfully convicted...