In the article, Jury hears eyewitness testimony in Lillooet murder trial it mentions slightly about the Lillooet murder trial that is taking place in Kamloops Supreme Court. the article just briefly mentioned that it was a case where a Lillooet man named Jeffery Harris is being charged with second degree murder of a 64-year-old named Gary Mandseth. The main focus of this specific article is that the jury was finally able to hear the eyewitnesses give their testimonies about what happened the day of the murder. As we learned in class eyewitness testimonies are considered to be the most compelling evidence in the court. In this particular case two eye witnesses gave their testimonies on April 3rd of this year, one was Jennifer Saelens who was living in the same house as the victim back in 2015, and the second eyewitness was Leonard Isaac who was one of the officers that was tasked with responding to a foot pursuit of Mr. Harris. Jennifer’s account of what happened was detailed and accounted what was happening at the time of the crime, while Officer Isaac’s account …show more content…
What seemed to be a bit off was that there seemed to be gaps between some of the things she was recalling. This can be understandable since memory in alone is never a hundred percent clear due to the fact it does not store information as if you were to store a video on a memory card, also with the added stress of the situation that was playing out there will be errors in the encoding of the information that the brain is currently processing at the moment. Lastly, this event happened back in 2015 and now in 2017 Jennifer is recalling the event as she gives her testimony. One thing we know about memory is that it deteriorates overtime, so over this two year time span since the attack, it’s reasonable to see why all the details are not all there and that there are some gaps in her description of the