Despite the problems suggested above, it would be impossible to conduct police investigation without the use of eyewitness identification. Thus, we need to improve our administrating system to overcome those pitfalls and strengthen the accuracy, reliability, and validity of the process. Gary L. Wells and Eric. P. Seelau make four suggestions as to reduce mistaken identification (1995, pg. 775-781). First, we need to inform the eyewitnesses that the culprit might not be in the lineup. In doing so
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in the same way and with the same words, even if the event is recent and if neither of them has a personal interest in distorting it” (p.1) After viewing different testimonies it is evident that recollection of an event is adapted due to various factors such as: personal experiences, age, gender, bias, and more. This is why testimony is so valuable because it provides viewers with the ability to relate in some ways to survivors, it reiterates historical events during the Holocaust combating deniers
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to life in prison. The verdict of Hatchett's case relied heavily on the misconduct of Gerard Williams' sole eyewitness testimony which overlooked evidence that initially identified the true perpetrator (Innocence Project). Using the works of Loftus’s (2015) and Rattner’s (1983), I will examine how the primarily causes for cases of wrongful convictions consist of faulty eyewitness testimony and the exposure of the false memories. To begin, Loftus suggested that the identification of defendants from
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people convicted of crimes that they did not commit just because inaccurate eyewitness. Eyewitness memory is not always accurate It does have its downfalls. People should be careful when doing eyewitness because they can chose the wrong person, that person can be convicted of a crime they did not commit and the criminal can be out in the street committing others serious crime. People can have errors while conducting eyewitness because of confusions and/or fault memory, government misconduct by police
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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
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U.S. The investigation of wrongful convictions, which challenge the fairness and truthiness’ of the criminal justice system, are becoming a necessary feature of criminal justice analysis. Together we shall teach people how to improve their eyewitness testimony, not interrogate innocents, and not allow the death penalty. With these issues resolved the amount of the wrongly convicted will
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for retrial. Unaddressed wrongful conviction cases show the weaknesses in the U.S. justice system. This paper will touch on the causes that lead to wrongful convictions and discuss possible solutions. The main factors of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentification, misleading/unreliable forensics, false confessions (coerced/intimidated), witness perjury, prosecutorial misconduct, insufficient lawyering, racism and implicit bias. Since the first DNA exoneration conviction in the United States
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MEMORY ACCURACY: THEORETICAL MODELS AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION Human memory has been on many occasions compared to the operations of a computer on the basis of their multifunctional systems. Memory is critical and plays a central role in our everyday information processes. Several models of information processes have in-time being proposed. The Atkinson-Shiffrin model (1968) is the most popular is and widely used by many memory researchers. The model indicates the transfer of information from the
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the verdict based on the eyewitness testimony. Could these eyewitness testimonies be considered unreliable? Decisions based on the judge and jury through the questioning of the lawyers, disregarded the mental state of the witness. In his book, Hugo Munsterberg, explains the mind of the eyewitness through illusions, memories, emotions and suggestibility. Illusion is a perception. Munsterberg in his book describes several cases that make you wonder if each eyewitness was at the same scene. For
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in the city reported only a day after the Battle of Gettysburg, which had caused a large number of casualties. Two articles attempted to create an accurate depiction of the riots through an eyewitness testimony. “The New York Riots of Monday” published by the Chicago Tribune, the author an unknown eyewitness, and “The Riotous Outbreak in New York” by Noyes Wheeler, both focus on the violent nature of the mobs and portray them in a negative light. However, the violence reported differ in focus as
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