Sentences with phrase «eyewitness testimony so»

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

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So much for eyewitness testimony, huh?

So, no, as a general rule the testimony on many eyewitnesses, even verifiable ones, isn't always reliable, is it?

So on one hand we have Jesus... in which we have eyewitness testimony, who even secular historians acknowledge lived, and KNOW that humans exist.

So perhaps a hypothetical «ear - witness» testimony wouldn't be perfect, but the witness would have a decent chance of being correct — just like with eyewitness testimony.

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.

«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.»

Another, perhaps even more important problem, is how a jury relies so heavily on eyewitness testimony to determine what in fact happened.