Expert witness

article by Martin Gansberg, “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” bystanders attempt to explain themselves. Does witnessing someone else's distress and possessing the capability to help consider the witness involved? “ ‘I didn’t want to get involved,’ he sheepishly told the police.” A witness that can help is involved, they could save the person’s life, but chooses not too. Therefore, this excuse of not getting involved is no where near justified as they were already involved. Does…

Sokologorskaya is described as “a fifty-two-year-old women with a tired, apologetic face” (Gessen 170). This witness could have played out well for the prosecution if the prosecution had prepared the witness better because the witness testimony was riddled with fallacies that could have helped Pussy Riot if Pussy Riot had a fair trial. The first fallacy that in the Sokologorskaya testimony was a tu quoque, which is a fallacy…

In the Unlikely Event of a Water landing Tragedies such as murder and rape are thought to be horrendous crimes; acts so violent and malicious that the perpetrators must spend their lives in prison to pay their dues, but these crimes occur so often they rarely make headlines anymore. Every once in a while a big “story” will hit the news and the masses will cry out in outrage but even then the outrage dies down and the victims are forgotten. Many times there are witnesses to these crimes that do…

on the validity of eyewitness testimonies in the judicial system. Eyewitness testimonies can have an impact on a jury, which are the persons/people that take on the role of sorting out credibility and making judgments based on witness statements on whether or not they are being truthful.…

Supreme Court has imposed rulings that all exculpatory evidence must be disclosed and that the defendant has a right to learn of any incriminating and/or discrediting information pertaining to the witnesses against them and may result in impeachment of witness testimony. With that said, an officer’s ability to be an effective law enforcement official has diminished in the eyes of the department because his or her lack of integrity and dishonesty “is likely to undermine the officer’s ability to…

through the years. The constant fear he had when his dad was gone. How every time his dad came how he might be a little different this time. To witness the pain that his dad goes through every day. All of this would kill me as a son. This man I always look up to just to see him fall and shatter on the ground then fight to pick up the pieces. Just To witness this the down fall of a man’s life it adds a lot to your life. It’s like witnessing the down fall of the Roman Empire in a first person…

III. THE COURT IMPROPERLY PRECLUDED MR. TULIN’S COUNSEL FROM COMMENTING ON THE COURTROOM DEMEANOR OF MS. MARCELIN, IN VIOLATION OF MR. TULIN’S RIGHTS UNDER THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE Ms. Marcelin, while exiting the witness stand, but still in the courtroom and within plain sight of the jury, purposefully waved and smiled at Mr. Tulin. Mr. Tulin, through counsel, brought this fact to the court’s attention; however, the court precluded counsel from making any references to or arguments from this…

In the film ‘The Witness’ we explore numerous ideas in which validates John Donne’s observation which leads us into trusting the statement that is “No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.” Every individual is a puzzle piece which fits flawlessly into a much bigger picture. In this Instance it is an Amish community. Peter Weir expressed his opinion on what belonging means to us as humans through his film which works in sync with the…

of scheming to present an advance application to Bank of America that contained false data and was bolstered by forged archives. As per the prosecution, starting approximately November 24, 2010, and proceeding to the present, Calderon has been an expert government form preparer and a large portion of the charges against Calderon emerge from this expense work Calderon and Sanchez were captured in Salinas and showed up this evening in government court in San Jose before the Honorable Paul S.…

The videos clearly show and explain how the eye witness statement can have an impact on the investigation as well as false information being entered into court, which can lead to false conviction. In the first video, almost every interviewee had a different answer, the only thing that was repeated was; “He had a black jacket, wool hat, and he was all”. When the interviewer asked about the hair colour, the interviewees came up with a bunch of different answers. I think this is a perfect example…