Testimony

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.…

events. Eyewitness testimony plays a huge role in determining research within human reconstructive memory and cognitive psychology. These two terms elaborate on the cognitive processes through language, and imagination by the given account received by individuals that witnessed a certain event. Loftus & Palmer believed that individuals tended to overestimate the recalling of events on memory. Thus, they believed that providing leading questions could distort the eyewitness testimony accounts;…

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…

The fiber evidence played an overwhelming role in the conviction of Wayne Bertram Williams for multiple reasons, primarily because the prosecution was able to link twenty-eight different types of fibers to Williams and his victims (Saferstein, 2015). Furthermore, the fibers located on the victims were unusually shaped yellow-green fibers, which matched the carpet in the Williams’s home (Saferstein, 2015). The fiber evidence gained additional credibility for the prosecution when they discovered…

1. Do you think that Tyrone Briggs might be a victim of false identification? Why or why not? I think that Tyrone Briggs might be a victim of false identification for two reasons. The first reason is that the police could not find any material evidence that could prove Tyrone’s guilt. The second reason is that there is eyewitness form several victims which could lead to inaccurate information. The police had some descriptions but the information that they have was not complete to press charges…

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…

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…

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…

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…