Witness protection

Eye Witness Testimony Paper Janessa Gumz Intro to Psychology Eye Witness Testimony 2 Eye Witness Testimony Paper Is eye witness testimony always reliable? An eye witness testimony is when a bystander gives the court their testimony describing what they observed in relation to the case under investigation. Because people can lie and can be judgmental, eye witness testimony is not always reliable, but it is considered to be reliable most times. Although perjury, or knowingly lying under oath, is…

video, R v. Perry and Manitoba (2016), the investigating officer, Constable York, seized four exhibits: a wallet, a Timex watch, a kitchen knife, and a gun replica, which entered into court as physical evidence. Constable York also testified as a key witness, who then had to undergo a cross-examination by the defence counsel. Going into the field of law enforcement, it is important for officers to prepare and follow correct procedures in order to increase their credibility as an officer, and to…

Image being tried for first degree murder at seventeen. Imagine the trial going wrong and being convicted for a crime that people can’t prove you committed. Image you are sent to prison for the rest of your life. This may not be your story, but it is the story of Adnan Syed, a man from Maryland. As a teenager, Adnan was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. Adnan’s case came to light in 2014 when the reporter Sarah Koenig made a podcast investigating the case. After…

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 change the witnesses choice, but there is solutions. The main problem in Andre Hatchett's case was the faulty witness Jerry Williams. " A faulty witnesses and misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to…

In this trial, the question the court is being asked to answer is whether Alex Cooper was responsible for his own injuries. Throughout this trial, the law applied was negligence. Negligence is broken down into four parts: duty, breach, causation, and damages. Due to the nature of this trial as a civil suit, the plaintiff had the burden of proof, meaning the burden to prove by the greater weight of the credible evidence. On the night of October 5, 2012, Taylor Hamilton was driving his mother’s…

what he said and what the person he is interviewing is saying. On page 147-148 a good example of one of his police reports is given. This is because he gives a detailed report of a witness who was not cooperating and yet still states how he tried to deescalate the situation and get the conversation between him and the witness going. He states that his interview is a follow up on the investigation which is good to see that he is following procedures in his investigation and report taking. 3.…

Witness testimonies are often unreliable due to the nature of human memory. For this discussion, 'testimony ' will be used loosely to represent a statement, written or spoken, made by any person claiming to have seen or experienced anything relating to their respective case. The chosen scope for this discussion is cases of sexual assault because very often in such cases the only evidence presented is a testimony, either by the victim or a witness. Aside from the aforementioned, DNA evidence has…

prove is what exactly happened to your loved one. If your loved one was involved in an industrial accident, for example, you are going to want video and witness testimony…

“Working Toward the Truth in Officer-Involved Shootings- Memory, Stress, and Time” is also written by Geoffrey P. Albert but as well as John Rivera, and Leon Lott. The authors went about the same subject but from a different angle. The focus of the discourse is significantly based on how trauma and high emotional experiences in general severely impact one’s memory and their perception of an event. There are countless factors that should come into play when determining the accuracy of such…

article by Martin Gansberg, “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” bystanders attempt to explain themselves. Does witnessing someone else's distress and possessing the capability to help consider the witness involved? “ ‘I didn’t want to get involved,’ he sheepishly told the police.” A witness that can help is involved, they could save the person’s life, but chooses not too. Therefore, this excuse of not getting involved is no where near justified as they were already involved. Does…