Expert witness

Changes in the Accuracy of Witness’ Testimonies Introduction Based on information gathered after an event, memory of said event (while this is applicable to just about any event in everyday life, the focus in this case is a crime) almost always differs from person to person based on differing perspectives, confidence levels, and unconscious reconstruction of the memory. In this report, reasoning as to why errors are made when eyewitnesses recall how a crime happened and possibly the…

Psychologist’s claim that the human memory is not reliable and it’s because of this that there have been circumstances that have affected the accuracy of the Eye Witness Testimony. Many factors that have been found to affect the EWT some include emotional stress, misleading information and post-event discussion. One source shows an experiment by Loftus and Palmer (1974) who researched the theory that misleading questions could affect the EWT. They showed participants a video of a car crash and…

about the attacker. The description was within a short period of time after the incident. Even though, some of the description of the photos may not be accurate, the information at hand may be important in the investigation. Some things that the witness have not mentioned with details may become critical in determining if Tyrone is the attacker or not. Even though, the five witnesses gave general description about their attackers, the information about them make the witnesses reliable. The…

With certain people, Hamlet is resolved to get revenge for his father’s death. With other people, this thought is the last thought in his mind. If he had any of the resolve he had showed earlier, his act of revenge would have already been completed. Instead of playing the part of the vengeful son, or dropping the issue entirely, he spends the entire act “slacking off';. He avoids the decision he has to make and pretends to be mad. This is shown when he says to Rosencrantz and…

chapter “Project Classroom Makeover”, readers may have spotted that expert knowledge and collective knowledge, as well as crowd sourcing, were mentioned in the story, and more importantly, were being labeled as two completely different forms of knowledge acquisition that are in constant battle with each other. In fact, Cathy Davidson, the author of the story, stated how “crowd sourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be limited in what we…

Welcome to our Utopia. I’m The administrator of the Community and Faith Association of Terra Nova. My job is to make sure that the the people from our community are happy and comfortable, and also that the people have the right to practice their religion openly without anyone treating them unfairly. Here in Terra Nova we let the people decide their own career goals as well as what they want to accomplish in their life. We do control how much television you watch because we believe people should…

Stella Nickell used Cyanide to kill her victims. Sue Snow collapsed in her bathroom of her home in the Seattle, Washington, suburb of Auburn. Paramedics found her unconscious and gasping for breath. They had thought it was drug overdose, but she was not a known user, and had taken only a couple of Extra - Strength Excedrin. Strength Excedrin is a safe medication. But…

When one thinks of memory, they usually think of past events that happened or something that they had learned. Although one can recall certain memories, can they recall every single detail? This semester, we were asked to recall the events of a day that happened six weeks prior to the beginning of class. While some students could explain some details of what they had done that day, not all could be certain. Details may not seem to be that important when telling a story from a childhood…

1. The strongest empirically supportable claim that I can make for the significance of race/ethnicity in criminal justice proceedings is that there exists a “racial empathy gap.” Recent studies have shown that both blacks and whites hold an “empathy gap” towards blacks that can influence the punishments minorities receive in schools and within the United States criminal system. To begin, there must be an examination of what this “racial empathy gap” is. What multiple studies have shown is that…

years later that the DNA matched with a person named Bobby Poole instead of Cotton. This explained that no matter how confident a person is, memory can still be shown as inaccurate. According to (Wells et al., 2007). Did many studies that show when a witness has picked out a suspect and then gets feedback back it can change the confidence of the person. Positive feedback has its pros and cons it can lead witnesses thinking the view of the suspect they got is better than it really is. This also…