Eyewitness testimony

Elizabeth Calderon, 39, Salinas, California, and Esther Sanchez, otherwise called Trinidad Carrillo, 54, Salinas, California, were arraigned by an elected excellent jury on charges of documenting false assessment forms, burglary of government stores, exasperated wholesale fraud, putting forth false expressions to governmentally protected establishments, and scheme, Calderon and Sanchez are accused of scheming to present an advance application to Bank of America that contained false data and…

confusing questions. Cross-examiners are always in a position of control and power with which they can readily confuse, intimidate and manipulate opposing child witnesses, and makes child witnesses look like telling lies. The accuracy of children’s testimony diminishes during cross-examination because they have difficulty in recalling memories of the actual events under excessive anxiety, and may acquiesce to statements or allegations against them even they do not actually agree with.…

Persuasive Argument Have you ever been in a court or been tried for a crime? Have there been any witnesses on these trials. Well if you have then you probably know that they are heavy trusted and needed. I’m going to be talking about how some of the witnesses are not reliable and that we need to fix how we pick them and trust them. My first point is that witnesses have all the trust, by just holding the bible and swearing an oath, people can still lie. My second argument is that that they just…

changing memories. Even if the person is 100% sure, the brain can change its memories. " The human memory tends to reconstruct incidents because humans do not have the capability to record memories like a video recorder." (Bonaguidi). Another cause of eyewitness identification is the…

Double-blind lineup administration which is a relatively easy reform to implement is suggested to help to guard against these risks by the ensuring that administrator expectations do not taint the eyewitness evidence. To be more precise, whilst nobody likes to think of the scientists as dishonest, there is often existing pressure. It is the fight for research grants and from billion dollar drug companies, in order to generate positive results…

A pool of statements concerning eyewitness identification issues, including statements used by Kassin et al. Loftus , was generated. From this initial pool a multiple choice questionnaire was developed. The eyewitnesses topics selected for inclusion were based on ratings of reliability supplied in the Kassin et al. "Do you think this phenomenon is reliable enough for psychologists to present in courtroom testimony?" Topics with levels of agreement among experts below 90% with respect to…

validity of an individual’s testimony. In the QB trial video, R v. Perry and Manitoba (2016) a wallet, a Timex watch, a kitchen knife, and a gun replica entered in as physical evidence and can act as direct, or indirect evidence connected to a crime. Usually, this type of evidence is entered through a witness, which in this case was Monty Hall who was the victim. During Monty Hall’s testimony, the Crown entered the exhibits one at a time…

On January 13,1999 at 2:36 pm, a 17 year old teenager named Hae Min Lee went missing in Baltimore, Maryland. A month later her body was found in Leakin Park buried in a six inch grave. According to the autopsy report, Hae Min Lee died from strangulation. On February 28, 1999, her ex- boyfriend ,Adnan Syed (who was also 17 at the time), was arrested and later convicted for the murder and sentenced to life in prison. Jay Wilds ,a mutual friend of the suspect, states that Adnan showed him Hae’s…

Trial Summery Over the summer and fall of 2015 I Interned at the public defender’s office in Wake County. Throughout my time interning I have been working on two cases, neither of which have gone to trial neither of which have gone to trial at this stage. However, I was able to attend part of a trial for a rape case, in which our client was the defendant. By attending part of this case, I was able to experience first-hand courtroom procedures. Before discussing the trial, it is essential to…

passed the Carpenter house that morning, he had heard some “loud talking” about 25 to 30 yards away. This suggested that the “loud talking” Johnston was referring to could, arguably, have more accurately been described as shouting. Another similar testimony was made by Jacob Baptiste, in which he testified to hearing somebody “scold, mad or something” around one o’clock that day, also about 25 to 30 yards away. When asked about the content of what had been said, Baptiste had said he could not…