Eyewitness testimony

Child Sexual abuse is the hardest abuse to prove in a court of law and relies heavily on the trustworthiness of a child’s statement. Criminal courts look at several reliability factors to be present when assessing a child’s hearsay statement for credibility. After viewing Honesty’s disclosure video, I conclude that Honesty’s statement is trustworthy as evidenced by several reliability factors I observed in the video. The first reliability factor I noticed in the video was the proper questioning…

The issue is whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Agnes for theft given that she left a shop in possession of a handbag for which she had not paid. To determine if there is sufficient evidence it is necessary to consider the likely defence case and bear in mind how likely the defence case is to affect the prospect of conviction. The defence is likely to argue that there is no evidence to suggest that Agnes was the person that placed the handbag in her bag prior to leaving the…

INTRODUCTION Eyewitness testimony, which depends on the precision of human memory, enormously affects the result of a trail. For instance, In 1984, American College Student Jennifer Thompson was assaulted at knifepoint by a man who burst into her dorm. Amid her difficulty, Jennifer focused on everything about her aggressor so she could later precisely identify him. Soon thereafter, she worked with law enforcement to make a precise representation out of an attacker. A couple days after the fact…

. What are the implications of false or misidentification in the courtroom? An eyewitness picks the person that most resembles the criminal in a line up or pictures which may not be them. Sometimes the criminal that did the act, isn't even in the line up giving the eyewitness. This makes it very hard to identify the right man. This causes misidentification and in a courthouse could potentially put the wrong person in jail. Bobby Pool and Ronald Cotton have similar facial features. They both…

Based off of conducted research, eyewitness memory used in testimonies is one of the most persuasive forms of evidence that is presented in court, but the facts are rather doubtful. Mistaken eyewitness evidence can lead to illegal conviction, imprisoning people for a period of time even to death penalty, for crimes they did not commit. According to the article, Eyewitness Testimony and Memory Biases, “faulty eyewitness testimony has been implicated in at least 75% of DNA exoneration cases-more…

Changes in the Accuracy of Witness’ Testimonies Introduction Based on information gathered after an event, memory of said event (while this is applicable to just about any event in everyday life, the focus in this case is a crime) almost always differs from person to person based on differing perspectives, confidence levels, and unconscious reconstruction of the memory. In this report, reasoning as to why errors are made when eyewitnesses recall how a crime happened and possibly the…

effects in a distinct class of its own. While the power of suggestion can be hard to understand for some, it becomes all too clear when suggestion is referenced in the context of the criminal justice system, where leading questions can lead to eyewitness misidentifications, suggestive recall procedures can produce false memories, and aggressive…

The testimony of an eyewitness during a court proceeding can have at times a positive implication and pave the way for justice to be served, but it may however also have detrimental repercussions for the accused. There are numerous instances upon which innocent suspects of crimes have been convicted of heinous crimes as a result of eyewitness misidentification. In serious crimes, eyewitnesses are used as a strong evidence of an event. However, we as humans are all prone to mistakes - mistakes in…

This article, written by Rose and Beck (2016), examine the accuracy of eyewitness identification and find out the physical distance from the crime which they witnessed as well as the length of time between witnessing the crime and successfully identify the perpetrator. Rose and Beck have found out that some researches have argued that false memory and advise can influence the result in people giving testimony about the crimes they have not eyewitnesses. Therefore, the primary aim of this study…

beliefs and what they believe to be true or not. A lot of situations and cases tend to be doubted because people won’t believe anything until they have their own proof or certainty about He goes on to say that trust in knowledge by testimony is important because testimony is a special way of acquiring knowledge.…