Testimony

Court supported that trial judges are permitted to examine whether an expert's conclusions are sufficiently unfailing, even if based on the accepted and proper methodology. As a result, the Court upheld the trial court's conclusion that the expert's testimony about the cause of the failure of the particular tire in the case at issue was insufficient to be presented to the jury. (Shelton…

actuality, courtrooms sometimes feed into the drama that is displayed on mediocre primetime television. In a sense, winning a case is more or less a competition of seeing who can manipulate the jury with flashy graphics, visuals, and heartbreaking testimonies. According to Hsieh’s article, “Trial Lawyers Cater to Jurors’ Demands for Visual Evidence”, words aren’t enough to defend a case because jurors are expecting to be entertained. This misconception stems directly from the…

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 reliability and/or research basis were not included in the survey, with the exception of a trained observers question. The trained observer item in Kassin et al.…

a tired, apologetic face” (Gessen 170). This witness could have played out well for the prosecution if the prosecution had prepared the witness better because the witness testimony was riddled with fallacies that could have helped Pussy Riot if Pussy Riot had a fair trial. The first fallacy that in the Sokologorskaya testimony was a tu quoque, which is a fallacy that is an opponent 's argument has no value because the opponent does not follow his or her own advice. This shows up when…

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…

old boy that would go on to spend 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Hunt was convicted based on eye-witness testimony and informants, but was later exonerated based on DNA evidence that matched a man that was caught just a few months after the murder took place. This case is an exemplar of the strength of DNA evidence and the fragility of eyewitness testimony. When 911 was called on the morning of the murder, the caller identified himself as Sammy Mitchell. This man was friends…

Police conduct during the Carter murder investigation was far from ideal. The police did not follow appropriate procedures when conducting interviews and interrogations and they harassed Williamson and Fritz for four years when, at the time, they did not even have fabricated evidence. The prosecution and police then fabricated evidence against the two men, implicating them in the rape and murder when no true evidence pointed to them and, in fact, much of the evidence pointed against them. in…

The reliability of eye witness now became an object of investigations. The reason of that is that there have been a lot of cases when it was suggested to be not really trustworthy. Therefore, the process of fair criminal justice with credible conclusions is a thing to which there has to be dedicated and paid more attention because of the number of proofs that claim the infidelity of such evidences. The human memory has the ability to remember events to acceptable levels only that it has to be…

the relationship between the effects of IB and expert testimony on the credibility of witnesses in the courtroom. Results indicate that regardless of the presence of expert testimony, the witness who saw the crime was rated significantly more credible than the witness who experienced IB. The presence of an expert witness did not significantly affect the credibility of the witness who experienced IB. Through the introduction of expert testimony, the study could further investigate…

Imagine your life was held in some else's hands. Them having the ability to throw it away in a cell, or let it be free and grow. You sitting across the room, knowing you did nothing wrong. How confident would you be they would make the right choice. Seventy percent of them would make the wrong choice. Seventy percent of all witness have been proven wrong by DNA evidence (Bonaguidi). Witness are a major flaw in our social justice system, they are unreliable because to many variables that can…