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Psychologists are helping police and juries rethink the role of eyewitness identifications and testimony. ... Iowa State University experimental social psychologist Gary Wells, PhD, a member of a 1999 U.S. Department of Justice panel that published the first-ever national guidelines on gathering eyewitness testimony,
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www.apa.org/monitor/apr06/eyewitness.html
www.apa.org/monitor/apr06/eyewitness.html
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HOW RELIABLE IS EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY?: A Decision By New York State's Highest Court Reveals Unsettling Truths About Juries ... The conventional wisdom, particularly among non-lawyers, is that circumstantial evidence is generally less reliable than eyewitness testimony. People sometimes say that a case is "only...
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writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20010516.html
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Steven Clark, associate professor of psychology, researches questions about eyewitness testimony and memory. Clark is a nationally known expert on the following issues: 1. Relationship between recall and recognition, 2. Effects of similarit...
http://newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=129
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I’ll soon be heading down to watch the 10 o’clock news for the latest word on murders and mayhem in the community. It’s a wonder that people still enjoy reading about our fictional bad guys with all the real ones staring at us nightly from ...
http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-eyewitn...
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Social Psychology principles can be used to facilitate eyewitness testimony ... Unfortunately in its present state, eyewitness evidence – though technically reliable in its own right – tends to convict innocent individuals in a devastatingly high proportion, estimated at 45% (Loftus & Ketcham, 1991). This alone proves...
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www.uplink.com.au/lawlibrary/Documents/Docs/Doc51.html
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Eyewitness testimony, which relies on the accuracy of human memory, has an enormous impact on the outcome of a trial. Aside from smoking pistol, nothing carries as much weight with a jury as the testimony of an actual witness.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/photos/eye/t...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/photos/eye/text_06.html
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Eyewitness testimony is very unreliable. Educate yourself on innocent people wrongly convicted via eyewitness testimony in our criminal justice system. ... Welcome to caught.net's Eyewitness Testimony Page! Here are the shocking facts regarding the unreliability of eyewitness testimony!
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www.caught.net/cases/eyewit.htm
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My area of expertise is not in all types of eyewitness testimony per se, but rather the specific events surrounding the resurrection, including the eyewitness testimony of the disciples of Jesus. Most of the time when specialists refer to e...
http://www.comereason.org/cmp_rlgn/cmp051.asp
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The claim that eyewitness accounts are the least reliable of all evidence types must be contrasted to what other evidences you are offering. If you mean that DNA testing and forensic science can be more objective and accurate ... Eyewitne...
http://www.comereason.org/cmp_rlgn/cmp050.asp
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