Witness

He was sentenced ten and a half years. The year of his conviction as 1985. Based on the little boy’s description, stating the assailant had a disfigured eye Larry Youngblood was convicted. (Youngblood 2012). The court based the case off of the eye witness instead of seeking evidence. He proceeded to claim his innocence, and did not take a plea. But the jury still convicted him of the crime. There was no type of tests taken during his trial. The police had improperly stored the evidence that…

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…

advantage as a result full and adequate disclosure is of utmost importance. Inadequate disclosure is often regarded as more of a procedural failing, not directly influencing the outcome of the trial, however when it involves the credibility of a witness and their testimony it runs the risk of an unfair trial considerably (Macfarlane, 2006). Likewise in this case, the prosecution failed to disclose prior to the verdict that Mr King had indictable offence charges pending and police had agreed to…

would make the right choice. Seventy percent of them would make the wrong choice. Seventy percent of all witness have been proven wrong by DNA evidence (Bonaguidi). Witness are a major flaw in our social justice system, they are unreliable because to many variables that can change the witnesses choice, but there is solutions. The main problem in Andre Hatchett's case was the faulty witness Jerry Williams. " A faulty witnesses and misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to…

Eye Witness Testimony Paper Janessa Gumz Intro to Psychology Eye Witness Testimony 2 Eye Witness Testimony Paper Is eye witness testimony always reliable? An eye witness testimony is when a bystander gives the court their testimony describing what they observed in relation to the case under investigation. Because people can lie and can be judgmental, eye witness testimony is not always reliable, but it is considered to be reliable most times. Although perjury, or knowingly lying under oath, is…

about a different aspect of this; and that is, in short, does the soldier having a red beret or a helmet change the meaning or truth of what happened that day during the protest? In the sense that, when say compared to the Holocaust, take the eye witness account of two different Jews in the same room when being taken by German soldiers. The first Jew recounts that the soldiers grabbed their arm, and loaded them onto a blue truck that took them to the Gestapo and checked them in, which has German…

hope that somebody, anybody would help them out. That’s what happened in the article “Sideswiped by Kindness” a woman named Yitta Halberstam was rushing to work when she hit a bus. She was scared how the driver would react but she was surprised to witness the kindness he gave her. The forgiveness she received inspired happiness in her day, and hope for society that there would be more people like the driver. Kindness plays a large role in society creating happiness for everybody, inspiring hope…

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…

I. Research Question: Laura Smalarz and Gary L. Wells conducted a study, Post-Identification Feedback to Eyewitnesses Impairs Evaluators’ Abilities to Discriminate between Accurate and Mistaken Testimony. The main research question in this study was whether feedback interferes with evaluators’ abilities to discriminate between accurate and mistaken identification testimony. This study is interesting because many people have been wrongfully convicted because of mistaken eyewitness testimonies.…

of many characters, the novel illustrates the manner in which emotions, varying relationships, and underlying racism can affect one’s judgment or perception of such an occurrence they are bearing witness to. These variables are also shown to affect the perceptions of people who did not directly witness the incident, but are impacted…