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    An aspiring counselor may use an assessment to assist him or her with determining an appropriate treatment for the client. Working with Katie The counselor worked with a client that was charged with the possession of marijuana and having false identification in her wallet. For confidentiality purposes, the counseling intern will call her Katie for confidential…

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    Eyewitness Identification The California Innocence Project website states that eyewitness misidentification is a primary cause of wrongful convictions. Up to a quarter of eyewitness identifications in cases of strangers are incorrect. Despite the high rate of error in eyewitness identification, eyewitnesses can provide the most damning evidence against a suspect. Several reasons explain the high error rate in eyewitness identification. One reason is the stress and anxiety that individuals feel…

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    The Thin Blue Line

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    of wrongful conviction is erroneous eyewitness testimony,” this is due to procedures such as suggestive pretrial identification procedures, like in the rape case of Jennifer Thompson versus Ronald Cotton, who said she “knew that she was right because, during the rape, she had studied his eyes, his voice, his height, and even the .shape of his ears. She was determined to identify him later if she survived. Thompson's repeated strong and confident identification of Cotton during pretrial…

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    Judicial Blindness

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    on the judicial blindness of eyewitness misidentification of innocent defendants in the U.S. Judicial blindness refers to how the system refuses to initiate a proposal for reform of police procedures, that could in-turn minimize identification error. Viewed in this research are methods such as having lineups and photo arrays to be conducted in person by experts who do not know the suspect, thus minimizing suggestion. What goes un-noticed by the system is that eyewitness confidence levels can be…

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    Brenton Butler Case Study

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    Brian L. Cutler, eyewitness identification was tested to find the most reliable effects on eyewitness performance. The studies that they performed indicated that jurors ' evaluations of identification evidence are heavily influenced by the confidence of the eyewitness. Unfortunately, in this case and in many other cases, the confidence of the eyewitness did not matter because he still identified the wrong man. The correlation between confidence and accurate eyewitness identification is weak…

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    penalizing those who violate the laws that have been placed upon us. Eyewitness identification is relied upon heavily throughout the investigation and prosecution procedures. The term “eyewitness testimony” refers to an account given by an individual of an event that they have witnessed. Although juries tend to pay close attention to eyewitness testimonies, finding it a reliable source of information, research has found that an eyewitness testimony can be affected by many psychological factors. …

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    Essay On Eyewitness

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    Few pieces of evidence are more powerful than an eyewitness to a crime pointing to a suspect in a police lineup and exclaiming “That’s him! He’s the one!” There are also few pieces of evidence more flawed, imperfect, and subject to manipulation by police and prosecutors. Study after study has shown eyewitness identification to be notoriously unreliable. In fact, as the Innocence Project notes: “Eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by…

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    source of what leads to the main causes for wrongful convictions. The main causes for wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system are mistaken identification by an eye witness, ineffective assistance of the defense counsel, police or prosecutorial misconduct, and false…

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