Sentences with phrase «confident eyewitnesses»

But confident eyewitnesses can sway the minds of juries.

For example, jurors tend to give more weight to the testimony of eyewitnesses who report that they are very sure about their identifications even though most studies indicate that highly confident eyewitnesses are generally only slightly more accurate — and sometimes no more so — than those who are less confident.

And when the police had ample corroborating evidence against the suspects, the rate of positive identification by confident eyewitnesses shot up to 90 %, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Confident eyewitnesses aren't necessarily more accurate, but a study of robbery cases finds that it depends on how much time has passed before you gauge their confidence.

Many individuals have been falsely accused of a crime based, at least in part, on confident eyewitness identifications, a fact that has bred distrust of eyewitness confidence in the U.S. legal system.

However, although a confident eyewitness can make or break a trial, experience shows that mistaken identifications have and do occur and courts have long recognized this.

Not exact matches

The results don't mean that eyewitnesses aren't prone to confident false memories as in the Cotton case, Wixted says, but timing is key.

When the eyewitnesses made a decision, they also noted how confident they felt about their choice on a three - point scale — high, medium, or low.

Juries are told to discount the value of eyewitness testimony and ignore how confident the witnesses may be about whom they think they saw.

You are confident that the defense attorney does not share belief in your innocence, since they were not eyewitnesses in the case and therefore have no clue what really happened, and are predisposed to believe that most people lie to get out of trouble.