perpetrator’s face clothing etc. However the participants in the control conditions witnessed the same person but only in a peaceful situation and the participants were able to recognise the man when given 50 photos. When we examine real life eye witness testimony recall however‚ there is excellent recall of detail‚ and the weapons-focus effect was not supported. Yullie and Cutshall (1986) conducted a natural experiment on 13 out of 21 bystanders who had witnessed a violent shooting 4-5 months previously
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Xerox is an American-based company dealing majorly in sell of business services and products. Some of the services that the company offers include; 1. Transaction Processing Services – The services include creation of payrolls and debit cards used for swiping. 2. Generalized Printing Services – The Company performs printing of various documents on a large scale. 3. Xerox also offers cloud storage services for cooperation’s and law firms with high amounts of data. Apart from the services offered above
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regarding anything we heard or saw. Court commenced that morning with the Judge explaining to the witness (the complainant) that they were continuing the trial from the day before‚ and that she was still under oath. Immediately the
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be used against the defendant in court. 2.What is the hearsay rule and why does it exist? Hearsay evidence is where a testifying witness with no experience or factual knowledge of the event repeats information heard outside of court from someone else. It’s an overheard version of truth used to testify by a second hand witness. Since the first hand witness isn’t in the courtroom‚ the defendant cannot cross examine them. It exists because when stories are repeated‚ they are often changed and
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Analysis A photo spread would be presented to both the victim‚ Vicky‚ and the witness‚ William since their recollection of the assailant is similar. The photo spread should be presented to Vicky first because she was unable to view the assailant’s entire face and was taken by surprise by the incident. Her recollection is not as thorough as the witness and she is prone to lose what detail she can recall more quickly than the witness. William was able to view the assailant from the front prior to‚ during
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eyewitness testimony and to evaluate whether it is reliable or not. I’ll be explaining a short introduction into what eye witness recall is. At the end of the assignment a conclusion to what I’ve learnt and the overall view of eyewitness recall. INTRODUCTION. Eyewitness testimony is a legal term‚ it is a statement given under oath which police departments widely rely on. Eye witness recall is something that happened‚ according to an eyewitness- basically a person who saw an incident or an event and
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Dali Lama. I have witnessed and encountered many tragedies in my life and are going share the trials and tribulations that I have endured and how life has made me a stronger individual today. The point of this story is not to upset those who have witness tragedies as well or frustrate those who are going through something but to show that anyone can come out stronger through tragedies they’ve witnessed‚ instead of faltering into a distressful state of mind. My story begins at just the age of 8‚ we
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encoded everything she was seeing and hearing from her assailant‚ but what happens when other factors alter your memories. Things such as unconscious transference‚ weapon focus‚ cross race bias or how the eye witness was questioned can play a big factor on how memories are recalled from the eye witness. These factors played a big role in Ronald Cotton’s sentencing and cost him 11 agonizing years in prison. Many believe that once we encode something in our minds it is there for ever and there is nothing
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death in Texas. A woman was riding a roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Texas and she had been secured into her seat but told the person checking the harness that she was not sure she was completely locked but he told her she was fine. A witness even confirmed the woman was concerned about her harness not being tight. The woman that was killed from being ejected out of her seat had her kids on the ride as well. I found that WNEP only spent 2 minutes covering this story and not very informant;
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twice to complete the job.If we had been called after the first attacked‚the woman might not be dead now".The witness who called police‚explained that he had called the police after much deliberation‚he called first friend for advice and then went to the apartment of the elderly woman to get her to make the call."I didn’t want to get involved"was his exuse.Another witness said"There is no legal responsibility for any citizen to report a
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