Witness protection

attention, and many more. The following article explores the ways memories are false and affect crime cases. The article written by Laura Beil, “The Certainty of Memory Has Its Day in Court” informs readers about how memory can be unreliable. In witness testimonies, memory is vital to gather suspects in a crime. The issue is, memory…

Dillon as seen in court as the man he had remembered picking up near the crime scene on beach. There was a contradiction seen here in his testimony, hence another reason why law enforcement must not be too quick to place their trust in the hands of witness. The driver’s initial characterization of the hitchhiker was no where near close to Dillon’s physical characteristics. He originally recounted that the man he picked up was six feet tall with a rough mustache. Dillon did not fit this man’s…

about a different aspect of this; and that is, in short, does the soldier having a red beret or a helmet change the meaning or truth of what happened that day during the protest? In the sense that, when say compared to the Holocaust, take the eye witness account of two different Jews in the same room when being taken by German soldiers. The first Jew recounts that the soldiers grabbed their arm, and loaded them onto a blue truck that took them to the Gestapo and checked them in, which has German…

improvement of the evaluation from the juror happens when there is the support from the expert (p. 400). The argument explains when the juror needs clarification and further understanding on the inaccurate eyewitness, their mind has formed the idea of the witness is already unreliable, which fades out their incredulity. Moreover, there is the argument that has the expert in the jury may take away the significance of the judges, the prosecutors, the jurors, and the lawyer, who are originally the…

to what others are saying which would prove ineffective if a child is to be an eye witness (Siegler and Alibali, 2005, p. 40). For how can one testify if they are not truly listening to or understanding the context of the situation before them? Pro Argument Article In an article published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, Carole Peterson believes that children can be used as trusted eye witness sources. Using research, Peterson noted that even children as young as two can…

He was sentenced ten and a half years. The year of his conviction as 1985. Based on the little boy’s description, stating the assailant had a disfigured eye Larry Youngblood was convicted. (Youngblood 2012). The court based the case off of the eye witness instead of seeking evidence. He proceeded to claim his innocence, and did not take a plea. But the jury still convicted him of the crime. There was no type of tests taken during his trial. The police had improperly stored the evidence that…

hope that somebody, anybody would help them out. That’s what happened in the article “Sideswiped by Kindness” a woman named Yitta Halberstam was rushing to work when she hit a bus. She was scared how the driver would react but she was surprised to witness the kindness he gave her. The forgiveness she received inspired happiness in her day, and hope for society that there would be more people like the driver. Kindness plays a large role in society creating happiness for everybody, inspiring hope…

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…

Psychologist’s claim that the human memory is not reliable and it’s because of this that there have been circumstances that have affected the accuracy of the Eye Witness Testimony. Many factors that have been found to affect the EWT some include emotional stress, misleading information and post-event discussion. One source shows an experiment by Loftus and Palmer (1974) who researched the theory that misleading questions could affect the EWT. They showed participants a video of a car crash and…

about the attacker. The description was within a short period of time after the incident. Even though, some of the description of the photos may not be accurate, the information at hand may be important in the investigation. Some things that the witness have not mentioned with details may become critical in determining if Tyrone is the attacker or not. Even though, the five witnesses gave general description about their attackers, the information about them make the witnesses reliable. The…