Witness

My cousin Vinny is a film about two best friends, Bill Gambini and Stanley Rothenstein, whom have just being awarded scholarships to UCLA. Before the semester starts the boys decide that they want to drive through the south, once they arrived in Alabama they decide to stop at a convenience store to pick up some snacks. Not soon after they check out and leave the store they are pulled over and arrested for what they believe is shoplifting, however; eventually when they are at the police station…

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…

Sokologorskaya is described as “a fifty-two-year-old women with 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…

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…

on the validity of eyewitness testimonies in the judicial system. Eyewitness testimonies can have an impact on a jury, which are the persons/people that take on the role of sorting out credibility and making judgments based on witness statements on whether or not they are being truthful.…

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…

III. THE COURT IMPROPERLY PRECLUDED MR. TULIN’S COUNSEL FROM COMMENTING ON THE COURTROOM DEMEANOR OF MS. MARCELIN, IN VIOLATION OF MR. TULIN’S RIGHTS UNDER THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE Ms. Marcelin, while exiting the witness stand, but still in the courtroom and within plain sight of the jury, purposefully waved and smiled at Mr. Tulin. Mr. Tulin, through counsel, brought this fact to the court’s attention; however, the court precluded counsel from making any references to or arguments from this…

Psychological research shows eyewitness testimony, detailing events observed during the commission of a crime, has a high probability of containing significant memory errors. In response to these findings, the question is should witness testimony still be admissible in a court of law? Obviously, the answer to this question is an important one, and, is debatable depending on who you ask. Consequently, what we know is many innocent people are falsely imprisoned due to eyewitness…

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…

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…