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How video evidence is presented in court can hold sway in cases like the beating death of Tyre Nichols

16th February 2023

Assistant Professor Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado

OPINION: The use of police body camera footage and surveillance video has proved crucial in prosecuting many court cases and highlighting criminal activity – including the recent death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis – but video evidence expert, Assistant Professor Sandra Ristovska, believes the way such videos are presented can have a significant impact on a jury’s perception of a case.

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Sandra Ristovska
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Sandra Ristovska is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, and studies the interplay between images and human rights, particularly in institutional and legal contexts. She has held the George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and visiting fellowships with the Information Society Project at Yale Law (where she was also an advisor to the Visual Law Project), the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, and the Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University. Sandra is the recipient of the 2021 Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship for her work on video evidence.