Eyewitness testimony

Wrongful convictions have been a topic of discussion for many decades within the United States Criminal Justice System. A wrongful conviction occurs when an individual is penalized in a court of law for a crime they never committed. Unfortunately, there are many components that can contribute to the unlawful arrest and conviction of an innocent person. Some of the variables can be as minuscule as an improper photo array line and as immense as government misconduct. Consequently, there are many…

Humans are special, and abstract. Humans are complex machines or organisms that make up planet earth. I do think there is life beyond the solar system that we were programmed to believe. The Spirit is what makes a person 's human; moreover, humans share memories and celebrate with one another. Humans can be compassionate and see the high vibration in one another, but humans ' are naturally evil as well, thus make humans hard to research. Regardless of a person 's heart, humans compile and past…

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…

Is a Child Eyewitness? As a judge in the setting of whether or not a child on the witness stand is a reliable source for information, it is important to tap into the research that has been done over the subject. In this case 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was kidnapped from outside of her home in California and it just so happened that the only eyewitness was her 6-year-old playmate. There are many cases where police investigating a crime are faced with only having a child as an eyewitness.…

reason. The eyewitness memory can be of any value good or bad in court cases, depending on the demand which is hard due to the subjectivity of the human perception. The story told by the witness, which depends on the precision of human memory and nothing is more important to a jury than a good eyewitness. As humans we think that our minds can remember everything we see and read like a movie being played back in our heads, but it’s not and that’s why we think that eyewitness testimony so powerful…

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…

communication between a client and prosecutor. Without full information an attorney cannot do their job in full. Evidence: Eye witness identification: Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in nearly 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing. While eyewitness testimony can be persuasive evidence before a judge or jury, 30 years of strong…

they have a vivid memory of the perpetrator, a composite sketch is created and the victim chooses a suspect from the photo and physical lineup. The investigators think they have caught the perpetrator and done justice. They are often times wrong. Eyewitness misidentification has been known as the leading cause of wrongful conviction. A study by the Innocence projects depicts that it plays a role in 72% of wrongful convictions. In most cases, the misidentification is unintentional as memory can…

Although seen as controversial, Elizabeth Loftus is a strong leader in psychology, specifically in the field of memory. Her discoveries and experiments with false memories and eyewitness testimony have made her very prominent. She has written about her research on faulty memories, explaining the impact it can have on justice and society, as well as individuals. Loftus is most interested in the implications false memories have in the justice system. There have been many wrongful convictions…

The book is organized into four main topics that deal with the idea of free speech, the Holocaust Denial movement itself, the arguments and refutations of deniers claims, and the relationship between real truth and history. These topics are subdivided into smaller chapters which focus on a key theme related to the topic. For example, part two of the book titled, “Inside the Denial Movement,” contains chapter four which is titled, “Why They Say the Holocaust Never Happened,” (75). This chapter,…