false eye witness testimonies. Eye witness testimonies are the accounts given in the courtroom during a grand jury or trial by a witness at the event of a crime. False eye witness testimonies convict innocent people into prison. Out of the 80‚000 prosecutions a year that rely on eye witnesses‚ about half get convicted. Of those half‚ we are still sending 5‚000 innocent people to prison each year. There are many reasons why eye witness testimonies are unreliable. Eye witness testimonies rely on 3 basic
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Testimonies to Congress Society & Genetics 5 Landecker‚ Hannah Flaherty‚ Devin October 25‚ 2012 Testimony 1 Good Afternoon‚ Congress. Thank you for inviting me to discuss the significant issues and possible actions that can be brought to the antibiotic resistance issue. My name is Dr. Joe. I am a professor of professor of Society and Genetics. Through the research facilities at the university‚ I cultivate bacteria and observe what harms or benefits the different species
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Two of which were eyewitness testimonies and the third to be an actual piece of evidence. Eyewitness testimony depends on the witnesses’ perceptions and cognitive bias about an event. The problem with this‚ a person’s evidence might be false which can change the scenario. One of them was from an elderly man who lived on the floor below the boy and his father. The man stated he heard a fight happen upstairs and heard the boy yelling‚ “I’m gonna kill you‚” (Lumet‚ 1957) after the shouting he
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The author achieved his purpose to investigate the gospels (as well as other New Testament books) in the same manner he would an eyewitness testimony of a crime scene. In the first half of the investigation‚ Wallace teaches his reader how to be a detective. Initially‚ he tends to describe detective work like emphasizing the power of circumstantial evidence‚ the danger of presuppositions‚ and the critical use of abductive reasoning (distinguishing reasonability versus possibility). He later ties in
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Given the information that we now know about eyewitness testimony verses DNA science on page 440‚ this makes you stop and wonder about how many people have been wrongly imprisoned or put to death before DNA testing came along. From reading the article o page 440‚ it looks like the psychologists are using research to identify by showing individual pictures opposed to a police lineup; a person is most likely to choose an individual that may look close to the person that committed the crime. I think
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good lawyer and that is why she is so emotional at the start of the court session. Luckily for her though‚ she makes it through her testimony without breaking but its clear to see shes very nervous and on edge. Secondly‚ Tom is very calm and quick to answer every question in a very polite manner. His testimony is the complete opposite of Mayellas‚ but it plain to see Tom is telling the truth. On the contrary‚ it is easy to jump to a conclusion that Tom could be lying‚ but by reading closely its obvious
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Ronald Cotton - Eyewitness Testimony Jennifer Thomas‚ a 22-year old college student from Burlington‚ North Carolina‚ was raped in her off-campus apartment on July 28‚ 1984. During the assault‚ Jennifer studied her rapist’s face and other characteristics in the case that she made it out alive. Thomas was able to escape and ran to a police station and with the help of a detective‚ she was able to make a composite sketch of the perpetrator. The rapist also managed to rape another woman a few blocks
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Eye Witness Testimony Refers to the use of eye or ear witnesses in court or in police statements about the identity of someone who has committed a crime. Key Study into EWT – Factors that Influence EWT * Anxiety * Unpleasant emotional state where we fear that something bad is about to happen usually accompanied by physiological arousal (pumping heart) * Deffenbacher – MA of studies found considerable support for a negative correlation between anxiety and EWT meaning the more
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Exception of Hearsay Evidence under S. 73A of the Evidence Act Hearsay can be defined as the information gathered by one person from another person concerning some event‚ condition‚ or thing of which the first person had no direct experience. When submitted as evidence‚ such statements are called hearsay evidence. Hearsay evidence is generally not accepted in court. The general rule is that all relevant evidence are prima facie admissible‚ except for hearsay and opinion. However‚ under the Evidence Act
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remember what happened next‚ but her father and Mr. Tate were there. Atticus asked Mayella whether her father had beaten her and she hesitated that he’s never touched her. Atticus asked her whether Tom Robinson hit her face‚ she denied‚ and then admitted‚ and then said she couldn’t remember. Tom Robinson Tom Robinson did go inside the Ewell yard to chop up a piece of furniture‚ but that was last spring‚ not in November like Mayella said. Tom said that night in November‚ and Tom described what happened:
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