Trent Terrell

Trent Terrell has been a professor of psychology at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX since 2008. He has published numerous papers on eyewitness memory and eyewitness identification. Trent has testified as a memory expert in over 40 criminal cases in Texas, and consulted on over 130, ranging from petty theft to capital murder. He has given CLEs on eyewitness memory to the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the National District Attorneys Association in Houston, and the Center for American and International Law in Plano, TX. He has also given online CLEs to Lawline and LawPractice CLE.

Trent has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a master’s degree in Neuroscience, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, all from Baylor University. He lives in Temple, TX with his wife Rosemary and their three children.

I. A quick overview of what memory is, and more importantly what it isn’t, that a jury can quickly understand | 2:00pm – 2:30pm

II. A thorough overview of the most common factors experimentally-demonstrated to impact the reliability of eyewitness identifications | 2:30pm – 3:00pm

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

III. Review of several real-world cases involving photospread identifications and field identifications | 3:10pm – 3:40pm

IV. Strategies for mitigating the impact of identifications, both before and during trial | 3:40pm – 4:10pm