Sentences with phrase «eyewitness testimony»

Everything indicates that Paul himself interpreted the lightning - struck encounter with the resurrected Lord on the way to Damascus as an appearance which links his experience to the chain of eyewitness testimonies of the life of Jesus and of the resurrection (Acts 22:14, 15; 26:15 - 20).

This is one reason why, for example, there may have been such widely divergent witness accounts in the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting, says Gary Wells, PhD, a psychologist at Iowa State University who specializes in eyewitness testimony.

Accident reconstruction professionals heavily rely on eyewitness testimonies along with police and medical reports to piece together what happened, why and who was at fault.

The Court of Appeals found this, along with eyewitness testimony of Husband's drinking habits, was sufficient evidence of habitual intoxication even at the correct, preponderance of the evidence, standard.

(1John 1:1 - 3, written eyewitness testimony by John, about A.D. 70)

Here's a summary of eyewitness testimony from Mashable, with pie charts.

(John 12:1, written eyewitness testimony by John that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead)

Topher, you have been caught lying about eyewitness testimony before.

The Gnostic gospels do not include eyewitness testimony about Jesus.

Despite advances in forensic techniques, criminal investigations still rely on age - old tools such as eyewitness testimony, which can be biased and unreliable.

Study reveals how eyewitness testimonies go wrong.»

Did you know that 75 % of all wrongful convictions that occur within the United States stem from faulty eyewitness testimony, according to the Innocence Project?

So much for eyewitness testimony, huh?

I can find more living people who can give eyewitness testimony to voodoo magic actually working than all the witnesses of Jesus in the bible.

Surveys show that most jurors place heavy weight on eyewitness testimony when deciding whether a suspect is guilty.

External input makes eyewitness testimony unreliable.

Kersten and collaborator Julie Earles, Ph.D., co-author and a professor of psychology in FAU's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, were looking for answers to a key question involving eyewitness testimonies and mugshots: «Does presenting a picture along with a question like «is this the person who did it?»

Absent that evidence, negligence might be proven through eyewitness testimony, police reports or other evidence.

No — we should expect eyewitness testimony to differ slightly.

Who's qualified to write the creation story without eyewitness testimony, since this is what you feel gives the bible it's believability?

However, Billy is dismissed from the police force when the rumor of new eyewitness testimony finds it way to the Police Chief Carl Fairbanks (Jeffrey Wright).

Probably not, and yet that is basically what eyewitness testimony is.

«Not only was there no forensic evidence or eyewitness testimony linking the petitioner to the crime, the state's primary witnesses came forward with incriminating evidence more than 20 years after the crime and did so only after either learning of the sizeable reward being offered in the case, reading Mark Fuhrman's 1998 book, Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley, inculpating the petitioner, or both.»

There's not a single credible eyewitness account and if there were we understand eyewitness testimony is not very reliable.

We have proof in the form of credible eyewitness testimony of Jesus» resurrection and ascension.

Don't you think that an all powerful, all knowing, all good god would have left tons of indisputable eyewitness testimony from both Jewish and Roman sources?

We need eyewitness testimony.

«Most revisionists fail to place events in context or else selectively quote the participants and dismiss out of hand eyewitness testimony that would provide a contrary account to theirs.

A brief reading of Lk.1: 1 - 5 lets you know that the author does not intend to convey a myth, but is reporting eyewitness testimony.

Just search for «unreliability of eyewitness accounts» and you'll be swamped with scholarly articles and peer - reviewed research that demonstrates eyewitness testimony is among the LEAST reliable and accurate forms of evidence possible.

It would seem, then, that the testimony, entirely internalized in Christ's own testimony and in the testimony that God renders to Christ, loses all reference to eyewitness testimony dear to Luke.

In the absence of historical evidence to the contrary, our views are formed by the clear tradition of near contemporary accounts, preserved that our faith might be well founded on eyewitness testimonies within the Tradition of the Church.

Of course, never trust eyewitness testimony — mine in particular.

«Today's key eyewitness testimony that implicates Governor Cuomo in the cover - up of Bridgegate is another example of his political thuggery at the expense of New Yorkers,» New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox said in an emailed statement.

When Lara Frumkin, then at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, set up mock trials using videotaped eyewitness testimony, the jury perceived the same person to be less credible if they spoke with a foreign accent (Psychology, Crime & Law, vol 13, p 317).

In addition to educating jurors about the uncertainties surrounding eyewitness testimony, adhering to specific rules for the process of identifying suspects can make that testimony more accurate.

Loftus, a professor of law and cognitive science, performed experiments that revealed «how exposure to inaccurate information and leading questions could correct eyewitness testimony,» The Guardian newspaper reported.

Why is eyewitness testimony so unreliable that even without police misconduct it requires special jury instructions or a pretrial hearing?

These days, wells travels about 26 weeks a year as the unofficial head of a loosely affiliated cadre of academics, lawyers, and police officers proselytizing new procedures for judging eyewitness testimony.

According to Simon's new book In Doubt, despite advances in DNA forensic technologies, eyewitness testimony remains the most common way to nab criminals in the Anglo - American justice system.

Eyewitness testimony boils down to how well the witness remembers the event.

Research by psychologists at Florida Atlantic University gives new meaning to the notion of «guilt by association» and aims to test how memory in humans as well as police use of mugshots and subtle innuendo can contaminate eyewitness testimonies.

Consider that next time you hear eyewitness testimony.

Some prisoners may even have been executed due to false eyewitness testimony.

According to the Innocence Project, eyewitness testimony played a role in 75 percent of guilty verdicts eventually overturned by DNA testing after people spent years in prison.