Eyewitness identification

of false identification? Why or why not? I think that Tyrone Briggs might be a victim of false identification for two reasons. The first reason is that the police could not find any material evidence that could prove Tyrone’s guilt. The second reason is that there is eyewitness form several victims which could lead to inaccurate information. The police had some descriptions but the information that they have was not complete to press charges against Tyrone Briggs. According to an eyewitness…

September 5th, 2014. I would like to start by commenting that my initial reaction to this decision was quite positive. While conducting my thorough read of this case and decision you seemed to reference many other cases where the problem was with eyewitness testimony. I believe, and as you may as well, that one of the biggest problems with the case of R. v. Sykes (2014) was that the police and detectives involved with this case did not conduct a photo or live lineup. This procedure is very…

perpetrator is the memory. Memory is not always recalling everything that passed our eyes. Cross-racial identification bias is that people tend to apply more lenient criteria of a different race or ethnicity. In the book, the said that the higher rate of false positive identification are mostly Caucasian eyewitness identifies an African American suspect. What if the suspect had no color? Would the eyewitness still going to pick that person? Stress and weapon effect can cause the memory to not…

Eyewitness misidentification has been the predominant cause of erroneous convictions. A study by the Innocence Project shows that it plays a role in 72% of justice miscarriages. However, eyewitness testimony is considered compelling evidence and has been the foundation upon which many cases have been brought to trial. Factors like weapon focus effect, forgetting curve, cross racial identification, communication with witness after identification and memory contamination, contribute to eye witness…

Abstract Eyewitness misidentification is one of the leading causes of wrongful conviction. The correlation between confidence and memory, effects of stress on memory, and the accuracy of identification have been proven to be false. Research studies indicate that misinterpretation can occur in one of three stages of the memory process acquisition, retention, and retrieval which are not exempt to that of an eyewitness. This paper will speak on the validity of eyewitness testimonies in the…

Eyewitness testimony and memory Many people believe that certain events are permanently burned into their memory, and in their minds they can recall what “exactly” happened. However, many psychologists have found out that memory doesn’t work the way people think it does. They have discovered that memories are reconstructed each time instead of played back exactly the way we think they occurred. According to Elizabeth F. Loftus, psychologist and memory researcher At University of California…

and murder of nine-year old Dawn Hamilton, and an analysis of police behavior, eyewitness testimony, and even the inactions of his legal team provide clear warning signs for potential injustice. Law enforcement’s role in a criminal investigation is prone to human error. Understandably, police have a desire to…

people were to examine eyewitness reports for a case, they will realize that these reports may be similar to each other, but none of them are the same. Throughout the era, eyewitness experts have been conducting researches to uncover the reasons that led to these differences, and they have identified that sex is an important factor causing the variations in people’s eyewitness reports. Between the 1920s to 1970s, numerous studies have been conducted on the impact of sex on eyewitness abilities,…

In 1984, Jennifer Thompson, a collage student lived in Burlington, North Carolina, was brutally raped on July.29. When telling others about her experience as a rape victim, she mentioned that she was at home that night with her boyfriend. After her boy friend left, she fell asleep. Around 3 am that day, she was awakened by a stranger who stood beside her bed. The man held a knife pointed to her throat, and committed the crime. Unlike other women who tried to fight against the criminal, she said…

problems remembering the source of where they learned a piece of information. More and more studies have been conducted investigating the validity of children’s eyewitness testimony and strategies for improving their accuracy. Several studies have been conducted on the long-term memory effects of eye closure on children’s eyewitness testimony. Children can be informative witnesses, but the quality of information they provide is influenced by factors such as the kind of retrieval mechanisms…