Dr. Kovera has more than 25 years of experience in assisting attorneys with:

Trial Preparation

• Community surveys to evaluate pretrial publicity effects in different venues
• Community surveys of venirepersons to aid jury selection
• Jury simulations to test different presentation strategies

Expert Testimony

• The reliability of eyewitness identifications
  • system variables
    • blind administration of lineups
    • biased instructions
    • simultaneous vs. sequential presentation
    • feedback effects and confidence malleability
    • estimator variables
      • stress
      • weapon focus
      • cross-racial identification
      • exposure duration
      • retention interval
• Pretrial publicity effects on juror decision making