Eyewitness testimony

The unthinkable acts performed against her body left undeniable physical evidence combined with an unwavering eyewitness testimony resulted in her assailant, Richard Armstrong, receiving a life sentence. On June 24, 1980, the body of 19 year old UW-Madison student Charise Kamps was found shortly after noon in her apartment in Madison, Wisconsin. Her boyfriend Brian Dillman…

such as behavioral confirmation bias or self-fulfilling prophecy, it can be quite evitable that investigators can be inaccurate about their assumptions towards an individual. Investigators’ inaccuracy of guilt and deception can be compared to eyewitness testimonies, in which the witness telling of a crime would come up inaccurate as well. I was genuinely confused about the waiving of the Miranda rights; one would think that an innocent individual would exercise their right to silence and to…

the rape 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…

determines war as good, moral and just. Examining the causes of war, this paper will investigate how society labels acceptable and inacceptable wars. The purpose of this paper is to discover if there is are any good, moral or just wars. Through eyewitness testimonies to historian research this paper will consider all perspectives. Further this paper will work to determine if the label types of World War II are correct or simply attributes of a bigger picture. Moral Perspectives of a Good War…

deserve? There’s many different reasons to explain this problem we have in our justice system. In my opinion, the alarmingly large numbers of wrongful convictions each year are due to racial tensions, problems with DNA analysis, and lastly, false eyewitness confessions. Many people believe race plays a big…

As a ramification of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the nation is divided by conspiracy theories. The Kennedy conspiracy theories initially arose from Europe. These theories stated that the callous murder of President Kennedy was achieved through the acute coordination of the secret service along with the Mafia, in addition to the Vice President, also known as Lyndon B. Johnson. Though some argue that conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy are a…

necessary amount of evidence of innocence is the main reason why innocent people get convicted during trial. But what else can cause these convictions? The main causes are eyewitness misidentification, forensic science mistakes, and false confessions. “ 71% of overturned convictions examined by the U.S. innocence project involved eyewitness misidentification,” (Geddes…

Lazarus from the dead in John 11. John was writing the gospel of John to share Jesus' divine nature and confessions of who He is and by not having the same information included it strengthen the idea that the Fourth Gospel was written to reflect eyewitness testimony concerning Jesus’s life and ministry to convey who he was in his deity with God. Without these exclusions this would be just another Synoptic gospel without the deity and divinity of Jesus being clarified. “We know that one…

Real Life Situation: As part of my English Literature and Language Course, I’m analyzing a book by Gabriel Marquez, named Chronicle of a death foretold. The book is based on true events, and explores a local murder. In order recount the events and causation of the murder; Marquez interviews several eyewitnesses of the murder, each of which remembers the day very differently. Ranging from disagreements about the weather to the amount of times the victim was stabbed. This seemed absurd to me, as…

One table. Twelve angry men. Several votes. What happens if they make the wrong conviction? A kid winds up dead for the wrong reason, just like 6% of wrongful convictions. 72% based on eyewitness testimonies. One life already lost, is another on death row? 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose has several characters who are worth paying attention to as the play goes on. Even more so is Juror Number 7. A man who makes jokes to have others see his point. “You know what the soft sell is? You’re pretty…