Eyewitness identification

be speaking on why many are against the death penalty, for those wrongly accused. The death penalty statistics are interesting. I came upon regarding those sent to death row for the wrong purposes regarding DNA mix ups, lack of evidence, and or eyewitness testimony. To correct our Justice System; we must base decisions from strong evidence, proper trails, and an honest system. A more dedicated, honest justice system. With many investigations that have been performed; due to lack of evidence and…

Suggestion a practice that leads to false identification is composed of two factors that make the identification suggestive. The first part of suggestiveness is when a law enforcement officer or another observer identifies the witness at the time of identification procedure or any time before in court identification. On the other hand, the second part is when a law enforcement officer or a detective use different procedures to…

Introduction There are many people who have been accused of crimes they have not committed. Youngblood and African American male. He was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault, kidnapping, and child molestation of the young Latino boy name David Leon. At the time of the crime Larry was 30 years old. And the incident happened in the state of Arizona, on October 29th, 1983. A ten-year-old boy was abducted from a carnival in Pima county, Arizona. The young boy was molested by an unknown suspect.…

Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary that shows the problem in our judicial system concerning the juvenile being accused of a crime. This documentary follows the trial of 15-year-old Brendon Butler from Defense attorney Patrick McGuinness’s and Ann Finnell point of view as he works to prove Butler innocence. This case became America most misleading Cassie's because of its lack of evidence on Mr Butler Butler. This accident took place on May 17, 2000, out of Jacksonville Florida many…

improved Asch's (1951) experiment and suggested that the influence of conformity of an individual's task performance was based on the importance and the difficulty of the task. Participants took part in a study of eyewitness accuracy and were exposed to various eyewitness identification slides with two confederates who gave incorrect judgments on the trials in advance to the judgment of the real participant in different conditions (Baron et al., 1996). An opposite impact of conformity was found…

Prevent Wrongful Convictions in the United States Imagine spending 30 years in jail for doing nothing. It seems impossible, surely the justice system of the United States is better than that. For Lawrence McKinney, it is very possible. McKinney spend 31 years in jail, only receiving a 75 dollar check when he was released, after being proved innocent (Powell). Many more cases just like McKinney’s happen all the time. Court systems have many layers, each one of them trying to filter out the…

When people hear the word “pit bull” they immediately think of a dangerous and very vicious dog, responsible for attacks on people and other dogs. But should they really be considered dangerous? The description of a pit bull (American Staffordshire Terrier) according to the American Kennel Club (AKC) says, “should give the impression of great strength for his size, a well put-together dog, muscular, but agile and graceful, keenly alive to his surroundings. He should be stocky but not long-legged…

are able to provide biological determinants for victim identification. In exhumations, archaeologists play just as important a role as the forensic anthropologists in documenting and cataloguing remains and material culture or personal artifacts. In the case the trial of Rios Montt in Guatemala, the multidisciplinary approach proved pivotal in the conviction of Montt. Together Beatriz Manz, a social anthropologist and international eyewitness, Elizabeth Oglesby, a geographer, Clyde Collins Snow,…

Current Practices” written by Victoria Rideout and published by Common Sense Media. This scholarly article talks about the many ways to market to teens and children, such as what strategies should be implemented when it comes to advertisement. Identification There are many similarities and differences between the two articles just by appearance alone. Just reading the title one can conclude which discourse community each article belongs to. The “Reflection Revisited: The Class Collage”…

Justice in the United States has varied from person to person since the establishment of this country. Justice is defined as the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals (Merriam-Webster, 2015). That specific definition decodes as each person is treated equally and fairly, there should be no person above the law. This is not true for our country. A more appropriate definition is “Someone has to pay for whatever the wrongdoing may be. If you cannot afford a…