Witness protection

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Expert witness testimonies must be scientific, technical, and specifically relevant that will acknowledge the trier of fact to define evidence and determine the fact of the issue. Evidence obtained by expert witness’s must be based off of sufficient facts produced by applicable, reliable, principles and methods. In response to Daubert v. Merrill Daw Pharmaceuticals ( 509 U.S. 579 (1993), and other cases applying the Daubert standard. Under the Daubert standard the expert’s theory must be…

Test Plan Test plans were taken out on both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the application. The study plans were categorized into following parts. 1. System Instructions. In this plan, we explained the features of the First Aid App and the service it offers to the users. We collected user comments as we presented our ideas in a detailed walk through, highlighting all the application’s features. 2. Demonstration. A video demonstration was given to users explaining how to use the…

There are many problems that are associated with expert testimony focused around testimony invading the province of the jury, it being too adversarial and not impartial, taking too much of a courts time, introducing irrelevant information, and it is often founded on an insufficient scientific base. Smith (1989) cited eight potential problems with expert testimony. One problem is that the scientific base for the testimony is inadequate and can lead to unreliable information and potentially…

Hi, sorry so late to the game this week! I see that there is an issue of whether or not the court, takes the time to determine if the expert witness has the proper background or not. One of the things I would wonder is if there was a difference between someone who, has a great deal of experience with a particular piece of evidence, but no training and someone who has received training, i.e., when would a lay persons testimony be more accepted by the court then an experts testimony? This…

The study of psychology in law develops the roles in the criminal justice system. Psychologist who work in the criminal justice field may end up working in law enforcement, corrections or in the court system, each of these three fields incorporates different aspects of the legal system. The psychologist in criminal justice field studies the offenders, victims, law enforcement employees, juror expert witnesses, prison guards, judges and parole officers. The examination discoveries of a…

Witnesses stated that the couple had been at a nearby bar earlier in the day when the bartender asked the two to leave. Thirty minutes following their ejection from the bar, witnesses claimed to see the Deweys arguing loudly in the parking lot. A witness then saw Shelli Dewey “draped over” Steven Dewey, yelling hysterically “Please don’t die! Please don’t die on me!” (Dewey v. the State of Nevada, 2007) Dewey was brought into custody…

standards that are used by courts to determine who is qualified to be an expert witness are first and foremost familiarity and competency in the subject matter. The witness must possess education and knowledge of the subject, as well as practical experience and training in the subject. While there is no absolute law as to the extent of the amount of knowledge and experience is needed to qualify as an expert witness, it is encouraged that at a minimum he or she is able to put their knowledge…

In today’s society we have become complacent and content with being average. We have reached what Joshua Foer would refer to as an “ok plateau” . In both the essay The End of Remembering and the speech Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Study Yourself Failing, Joshua Foer eludes to the idea that as a society we have digressed in everyday mundane tasks, instead of improving. In his essay, Foer discusses how technological advancements have allowed for human’s to do a more superficial style of…

participants. The sample does not seem to be quite random since all participants were introductory psychology students. Level of education could be another factor influencing the perception of credibility and sentencing. Strength of this study is that the witness testimony was delivered via videotape rather than a written vignette, which could be more realistic and closer to what could actually happen in a courtroom. For future studies it is suggested to make the study setting as similar to a…