Sentences with phrase «for eyewitness»

A 2009 report by the New York State Bar Association, which identified major factors contributing to wrongful convictions, recommended video recording of custodial interrogations and changing procedures for eyewitness identification of suspects.

Dave, thanks for your eyewitness account of what is happening.

«The purpose of our article is to explain why a blanket disregard for eyewitness confidence is not only at odds with what has been learned in recent years but can also contribute to both the wrongful conviction of innocent suspects and the unwarranted removal from suspicion of a guilty suspect,» the researchers write.

Largely adopting provisions in a bill drafted in 2015 by the State Bar Association in collaboration with the Innocence Project and the District Attorneys» Association of New York, the budget agreement calls for both video recording of custodial interrogations of suspects in serious crimes and reforming procedures for eyewitness identification.

So much for eyewitness testimony, huh?

Bater pertinently comments, «If there was that much ambiguity about the resurrection of Jesus for the eyewitnesses, on whose testimony all the succeeding ages must depend, do not the efforts twenty centuries later to establish it as demonstrable and unambiguous take on a certain comical effect?»

I was reminded how community memory helps save lives only last week searching for eyewitnesses of the 1956 tsunami, the largest to hit the Mediterranean in the past 100 years.

Several studies have been conducted on human memory and on the propensity for eyewitnesses to remember events and details that did not occur.

In addition, it is also crucial to get relevant information from the other parties that are involved such as other drivers as well as contact information for any eyewitnesses.

Not exact matches

Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Edwards family, said that Oliver fired three shots into the car Edwards was in, based on eyewitness accounts from the other passengers in the car.

Actual eyewitness accounts have the eyewitnesses available for cross examination.

Who, for example, was an eyewitness to Jesus being tempted when he was alone in the wilderness?

and if you really want to directly access the scholarship (without the humorous additions for the purpose of speaking), read Richard Bauckham's «Jesus & the Eyewitnesses» in which he presents this statistical data outright.

once they are recognized historically for what they are (eyewitness accounts), then the debate can begin in earnest over the miraculous reportage.

I'm looking for an unbiased, preferably 3rd party source or eyewitness.

Mark served as a scribe for Peter and Luke painstakingly interviewed numerous eyewitnesses.

As for «eyewitness testimony» that's suspect.

The tomb where the disciples had laid the Lord's body found empty, along with the reports of His appearances after His burial, especially at His ascension, are eyewitness accounts and actual evidence for His resurrection given by His devout followers.

If there was ANY eyewitness to be found for that night, it was Mary.

The earliest voice we directly hear, that of Paul (for Paul antedates all of the Gospels), tells us little about Jesus, and Paul's testimony is not that of an eyewitness.

2 Given this author's care and demonstrated reliability, as well as his contact with eyewitnesses within the first generation after the events, this man can be trusted when it comes to matters in the life of Jesus for which we do not enjoy independent confirmation.

For example, Peter said, «We didn't follow cleverly devised tales when we told you about the power and coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His Majesty» (2 Pet.

For the original «eyewitnesses and servants of the gospel,» the memory was quite recent.

As eyewitnesses created texts out of observed and remembered miracles, texted miracles in turn become materials for imagination that pushed well beyond what was given or intended even in the text.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

Even the Catholics, hardly a sect known for being tight with historical accuracy, do not claim that Mark or Luke were eyewitnesses.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

Beth Hahn, historical editor for the U.S. Senate Historical Office told Grossman that it was the first eyewitness documentation and was included in in The New York Times.

All this is obvious and yet it needs to be said, if only to clear the air for a consideration of the early Christian use of a word such as «eyewitness».

@ Bruce «A couple of things about belief and evidence for belief from the scriptures: (1) the gospel of John encourages us to believe based on the testimony of others who were «eyewitnesses» to key events»

For a fresh vantage point on the whole «real» Jesus issue, I recommend the book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony, by Richard Bauckham.

An eyewitness to the arrest told ABC «that another person in the restaurant at the time of the incident «announced that she had been sitting at Starbucks for the past couple of hours without buying anything.

(2) The New Testament itself appeals to «eyewitnesses and ministers of the word» as authorities for the tradition (Luke 1:2), thereby showing its concern for the historical ministry of Jesus.

(3) During the period of the formation of the tradition, the first few decades of the Church's life, there were men living and active in the Church who had been eyewitnesses and earwitnesses of the ministry of Jesus, for example, James, Peter and John, the «pillars» of the church in Jerusalem (Gal.

Any attempt to argue for accuracy of the tradition so far as the historical Jesus is concerned on the basis of Luke's use of «eyewitness» is to fail to take into account the clear fact that he, like Paul, absolutely identifies risen Lord and earthly Jesus and so regards Paul as, in effect, an «eyewitness and minister of the word».

The second half of the lecture goes on to make the case for the authentic historicity — the truth — of the Gospels as reports by or of eyewitness testimony to the ministry of Jesus.

As for proof of a resurrection - There were many eyewitnesses to confirm that «Christ died for our sins» and that he had been raised up.

«54 In this modern perspective we discover that what we have to interpret is the testimony not for the most part of eyewitnesses and followers of Jesus in the days of his flesh, but «the witness of the apostolic community.

The gestation period for the Gospel material is at most only a generation or so, a period of time in which there were still numerous eyewitnesses to corroborate or correct this or that form of a Jesus tradition.

«For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.»

Aside from eyewitnesses of the resurrection which you have the option not to believe, the Christian movement itself which has contributed so much good for humanity around the globe is the greatest proof of Jesus Christ's existence.

We have no idea when it was first circulated in Palestine for any elderly eyewitness to say, «Hey.

Why do you believe the author of the Gospel of John regarding his alleged eyewitness experiences but you do not believe the author of the Koran, or the authors of the Hindu scriptures for theirs?

Michael You're right, there were no eyewitnesses to the creation story, but we can witness for ourselves the processes of evolution, of star formation, and a host of others that form the scientific view of how the universe and life happened.

Also, if they were written early, this would mean that there would not have been enough time for myth to creep into the gospel accounts since it was the eyewitnesses to Christ's life that wrote them.

mama k Chad seems to think that a story that mentions «eyewitnesses» is as solid a piece of evidence as an affidavit by an eyewitness who remains available for further questioning.

For their intention in writing was that either from their own memory and recollections, or from the witness of those who «themselves from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word» we might know «the truth» concerning those matters about which we have been instructed (see Luke 1:2 - 4).

So, for example, the Roman Catholic reaction to form criticism has always been extremely cautious, emphasizing the limits that must be set to this kind of enquiry, and the authority and reliability of the apostles as «eyewitnesses and ministers of the word».

We know nothing for certain regarding the conduct of his trial, for the Evangelists had no one to rely on who had been an eyewitness of the proceedings.

DK also publishes the Eyewitness series for children and Eyewitness Travel Guides.