Sentences with phrase «in eyewitness»

Modifications should be made to existing practices and procedures aimed specifically to increase accuracy in eyewitness identifications.

Since the Report's publication, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project has been working directly with law enforcement agencies to encourage the adoption of best practices in eyewitness identification procedures and recording of suspect interrogations.

But lost in the ruling is the fact that the Court recognized many of the issues inherent in eyewitness identifications.

The standard instruction used in eyewitness cases is based upon cases that precede the social science research informing eyewitness identification issues today.

He worked in the Special Assault Unit and Violent Crime Unit where he handled serious felony cases involving high - risk victims including sexual assaults and violent crimes, and was appointed to the Eyewitness Review Group responsible to analyze legal and scientific developments in eyewitness identification evidence.

Let the paintings in Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth - Century Europe inspire your own landscape painting.

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.

Although the consumption of human remains by starving colonists is alluded to in eyewitness reports and later records, there was no physical evidence supporting the claims in those texts.

In eyewitness testimony, they call it «weapon focus.»

Also from the Dorling Kindersley stable is a newcomer in the Eyewitness Science series, Technology by Roger Bridgeman (# 9.99, ISBN 0 7513 1058 1).

Cops are now hoping to speak to eight men shown in an eyewitness video in connection with the attack, and have released a photo of a person of interest, but had not made any arrests as of Monday evening.

If you want to continue to put your faith in eyewitness testimony, how was Genesis written?

Not exact matches

In a sense, by watching and sharing these photos and videos, we all become instant eyewitnesses to the deaths of these young black men — and to the often wide gulf between the «official» story of what happened and the murky truth.

Within a matter of minutes, Twitter users had identified him in one of the eyewitness videos — clearly not involved in the shooting — even as the police message was being retweeted tens of thousands of times, and TV news channels were still calling him a suspect.

In some ways, the rise of ubiquitous smartphone video and eyewitness journalism has made the world seem like a much more chaotic and dangerous place than it used to be.

If, as several eyewitnesses have claimed, a flight attendant «insisted» that the dog's owner, Catalina Robledo, needed to store the pet in an overhead bin, why didn't the passenger object more fervently or get off the plane?

To write «Command and Control,» Schlosser spent more than six years steeped in declassified government materials and interviewed military experts, scientists, and «broken arrow» eyewitnesses.

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.

Some of that evidence includes, «the empty tomb, the early belief of the disciples in the resurrection of Jesus due to eyewitness testimony, the transformation of the disciples, the conversion of Paul, and the conversion of James» I understand that many have died in the name of faith and religoun throughout time and still do, but they have died wholeheartedly believing that their way was the truth.

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

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

I will trust the 4 gospels in the NT as they were written soon after Jesus time, by eyewitness and is the truth.

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.

This guy is, in essence, asserting that at that time no one knew anything about places they didn't live, therefore if anything they said about Israel is accurate then they were there and eyewitnesses to everything and the gospels are correct and magic happened, which is completely moronic and without evidentiary support.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

Paintings, carvings and eyewitness accounts (including Job's in the Bible) show that man and dinosaurs did live together.

Besides, much eyewitness evidence is highly unreliable, as demonstrated by the hundreds of death row inmates who, in recent decades, they're convicted by eyewitness testimony and later exonerated by DNA analysis.

There's no avoiding the conclusion that Luke - Acts was written by a traveling companion of Paul who had the opportunity to interview eyewitnesses to Jesus» life while in Jerusalem.

I've asked in the other tread several times who could have possibly been an «eyewitness» to such a meeting, especially when Jesus supposedly made it a point to wander off into the wilderness alone.

The author summarizes the agreements among scholars about the New Testament texts and the problems they face in trying to recover the historical Jesus — the lack of eyewitnesses and the fact that the Gospels were not written individually and probably not by the authors to which they were traditionally ascribed.

It's not like a thousand eyewitness accounts of an event, where they'd vary in the details but generally agree on the most important aspects, it's more like a thousand people who were asked to right a short story about anything they wanted.

More fatally, Scott admits the presence, often the close proximity, of eyewitnesses who in every instance failed to eyewitness.

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).

However, recent scholarship which focuses on literary details within the Gospels themselves has demonstrated that they are in fact the product of eyewitness testimony — which was best historiographical practice at the time.

All eyewitness accounts are written in the 1st person.

Yet place all these miracle stories in the pre-scientific Roman Empire circa 1st century CE attested to by copies of copies of copies of discrepant manuscripts (written not by eyewitnesses) and somehow they become valid?

Several eyewitnesses have testified to the smell of kerosene at the time of the incident and to its presence in puddles of the water that eventually put out the fire.

«The childish mechanical conceptions of the nineteenth century,» declared Millikan in recalling his eyewitness account of Roentgen's report on his experiments, «are now grotesquely inadequate.

So who was an eyewitness to Jesus being tempted in the desert?

a) the miraculous accounts are all in the earliest records — which NOTABLY are within the lifetime of eyewitnesses.

What Mumia does not discuss here» what he has never discussed» is the treachery that occurred on that terrible night in 1982, when eyewitnesses say he emptied his gun into the body of Officer Daniel Faulkner.

If one compares the supernatural claims of the gospels to those of Joseph Smith, the 11 witnesses claimed to be direct eyewitnesses, their testimonies were contemporaneously recorded, and there is an external record corroborating they were in the right place at the right time; the gospels were recorded second hand, well after the alleged events, and there is no extrinsic record corroborating their presence at the right place at the right time.

In fact, there are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus.

In some cases» such as the Lucan account of the virgin birth or eyewitness reports about the risen Jesus» Cox mentions the troublesome passages but discourages his readers from grappling with their literal meaning and supernatural elements.

The average life - span in those days was around 45 years — the likelihood of any original eyewitnesses still being around to testify to the Gospel authors is extremely low, not to mention the fact that even the classical historian Josephus said that 20 years is long enough to render witness testimony useless.

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.

«Because some scholars have treated miracle claims in the Gospels and Acts as purely legendary on the premise that such events do not happen, I intended to challenge their instinctive dismissal of the possibility of such claims by referring to a few works that catalogued modern eyewitness claims of miracles.»

We're in a different genre here from that represented by, say, the Gospel narratives of Jesus» last days or the stories of the reign of King David in 2 Samuel, which read much more like eyewitness history.

Why would a story based on reliable eyewitness testimony differ in such ways?