Eyewitness testimony

Draft: The bombing of Dresden was a joint United States-British operation that took place during the latter parts of World War 2. Around 2,000 Allied planes took part of the campaign, while Germany could only afford a mere 28 fighter planes to protect the city. By the end, 135,000 Germans had been killed. Kurt Vonnegut was unfortunate enough to have seen the events unfold, as uses that as the backdrop for Slaughterhouse-Five. Billy, the central character of the novel, is a veteran, though by the…

Prisley Arias 114109956 LW 1156 Legal Writing Dr. Catherine O'Sullivan Introduction This case concerns Daphne Robbins, a woman convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated burglary, based on the key testimony of Mark O'Leary. The homeowner whose house was burglarised. Daphne petitioned this conviction on two grounds, which could be treated as one. First, the process by which Daphne was identified; she argues that she was a suspect in the eyes of Gardai McKay up until…

committed there is a third party individual who saw first-hand what occurred. These individuals are relied upon to complete investigations and provide testimony if the case were to ever go to trial. Occasionally, these eye witnesses can be children. Since children were first used as witnesses, the serious question of whether or not their testimony should be treated as credible was brought up. As we know, children are still developing and do not have as complete of a grasp on the world as…

killed. Mark Danner’s The Massacre at El Mozote, provides testimonies and reports of major news outlets which shows the hidden reality about how the United States supported the authoritative Salvadoran government during the Civil War in the 1980s. His novel marks a moment in history where an authoritative government abused its powers, and flagged major violations in human rights and was not condemned for their actions. Through his testimonies and reports during the…

Where were you when the September 11 attacks happened? Where were you during the july 7th bombings? Can you be confident in your memories to stand up in a courtroom over 10 years later and demand that your memory is as clear and concise as it was when it was first created. In fact, many people who were not even present at these attacks still describe very clear memories of what they were doing when they found out about them. Why would somebody who was not directly affected by the event have…

stay on top of assignment deadlines at university and during working life. Additionally, the study of Psychology has a direct connection with law as the social cognitive principles can be used when dealing with issues in the legal system such as eyewitness…

P1. The American revolution is often draped in virtue and righteousness. Some parts of it were, but many are romanticized. There are other less “pretty” sounding reasons for the revolution, many being political and economic. Economic factors have significant impact on the reasons for reform such as heavy taxation and laws that led to extreme financial discomfort. Politically, the grounds leading to such a movement are less weighty, political motivation tied back to economics. P2.…

Austin Briffa Professor Lund Honors Philosophy of Science 12-04-16 Miracles: A Scientific and Religious Analysis The concept of a miracle has been etched into our society for centuries. It’s a word that is used quite often in colloquial language, such as when one hears good news. To many, they are attributed to supernatural entities, saints, and prophets, such as those found in Judeo-Christian scripture. From parting the Red Sea to turning water into wine, these mystical events have captured…

An eyewitness claims to have seen a blue van drive away from the crime scene, but was the van really blue? If the eyewitness remembers seeing a blue van, but in reality, it was a white van at the scene, the witness may be experiencing a false memory. False memory is the changing of details of an event or remembering an event that did not happen. False memoires can have long lasting consequences and have been linked to important situations of high risk, like court room proceedings. There are…

“Janjaweed”. Surprisingly, even after reports reached UN, the timeline shows that this issue was still occurring in May and that the number of IDPs has significantly increased yet the resources are dramatically decreasing. Additionally, In an eyewitness testimony featured in a 2013 report by ForeignPolicy.com, “[The peacekeepers] made no visible effort to prevent the abduction of IDP [internally displaced persons]...They just stood watching as the gunmen drove away [from] the buses carrying the…