Sentences with phrase «eyewitness testimony when»

Perry appealed his conviction, claiming that the federal and New Hampshire constitutions prevented the use of eyewitness testimony when police have manipulated the identification procedures making it more likely that the eyewitness would select a specific person as a suspect.

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Many of us who are not eyewitnesses have trouble even assigning terms like «victim» or «abuser» when there are contradictory stories, evidence, and testimony and we ourselves haven't witnessed the behavior in question (or are very distant from it).

And if there were, we know eyewitness testimony is unreliable, especially when that testimony is from a zealot testifying on his obsession.

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).

Since the 1990s, when DNA testing was first introduced, Innocence Project researchers have reported that 73 percent of the 239 convictions overturned through DNA testing were based on eyewitness testimony.