This past year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced that Pennsylvania courts would no longer lag behind 47 of our sister states in allowing experts in eyewitness identification matters to testify to juries. That decision, Commonwealth v. Benjamin Walker, says that trial courts now have the discretion to allow expert in appropriate cases. 

This reform has been touted by organizations from the International Association of Chiefs of Police to the National Academy of Science as necessary to give juries the tools they need to assess eyewitness testimony. Finally, Pennsylvania is joining the 21st Century!