Eyewitness testimony

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…

remembers Blanton’s murder, she struggles with her identification of DuPree as the murderer. Striving to understand how she might have accused the wrong man, she seeks out the help of a hypnotist and of a professor who is an expert on the issue of eyewitness testimony. Learning that police officers can mislead witnesses with subtle gestures, she questions Clay’s pursuit of DuPree as the killer and starts to suspect her husband is the murderer. As the plot unravels, the strong belief in the legal…

On March 8th, 1985, Kirk Bloodsworth was arrested based off of an anonymous call telling police that he was seen with the victim of a murder that occurred on June 25th, 1984. The victim was a 9 year old girl that had been found dead in an excluded wooded area. She had been beaten with a rock, strangled, and sexually assaulted. The anonymous call stated that the killer was 6 feet, 5 inches, and that he had curly blonde hair, a mustache, a tan, and was skinny. Bloodsworth was 6 feet, had red hair,…

increased my knowledge about some things. I hope use this information in a future career one day or at least for myself. False memory was one thing that really caught my attention during the semester. This caught my attention because in many cases eyewitness testimonies can be the determining factor in a conviction. Thinking that something traumatic happened to you when, in fact nothing happened to you, or recalling an event that did not actually occur is very interesting how something like that…

Humans process all information through a general, three-step process: encoding, storing, and retrieval (Weseley & McEntarffer, 2007). There are various models that provide an explanation of how the human memory works, such as the three box model and the levels of processing model (Weseley & McEntarffer, 2007). According to the three box model, also known as the information-processing model developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968, newly perceived information is encoded through a set of stores:…

For as long as it has existed, historians, philosphers, scientists, and everyone in between have questioned the credibility of the New Testament's account of the life of Jesus Christ. Athiests, agnostics, and Christians alike all doubt the feasability of the events depicted in the New Testament. 2In a world where science rules, it is unsurprising the events depicted in the Bible would be scoffed at by many, shrugged off as absurd. Others question how a book can last centuries in human hands…

memories? Recalling memories is something that’s done on the daily, and is a very easy task to accomplish. We remember our last meal, what we did last weekend, and much more. Memories are recalled on our leisure and when they matter, like being an eyewitness to a crime. Regardless of what is being recalled the memory is firm; that is that the way the memory is remember is exactly the what it happened. For how much confidence we put in our memories our memories are not reliable. Most people tend…

Perception Imagine driving down the road and what seems to be coming towards you is a giant black puddle. The puddle keeps transforming in to different shapes as the sun reflects different levels of brightness on the road. You look around and see that it is not raining and you wonder why you would be seeing a puddle. As your car gets even nearer to the puddle suddenly the puddle disappears and all you see is the hot black pavement. This is when you realize that you were not seeing a puddle at…

Finny and Gene were taken to the Assembly Hall one night after hours for Brinker's "investigation" of the whole accident. Finny wants no part of it, but he got interested. He can't seem to remember where Gene was when he fell. Now after the eyewitness testimony given by Elwin Lepellier at this meeting, Phineas runs out because the emotional distress off finding out his best friend stabbed him in the back. Phineas re-broke his bone and died in surgery with a…

that one error was one too many and they needed to address the issues that were acknowledged within the casework. This push lead to many different groups working together to work towards making the system better overall including addressing eyewitness testimony, crime scene, and death investigations. The co-founders of the Innocence Project also used this push as a way to address a “learning-from-error initiative”. Additional help was added every time the groups pushed forward, many times…