Sentences with phrase «of eyewitness»

Ongoing projects include maximizing the reliability of eyewitness testimony, anticipating risks and benefits in synthetic biology, and preparing policymakers for science - based decision - making.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has released an enhanced jury instruction warning of the lack of reliability of eyewitness testimony.

Over the course of the tour, there are thousands of eyewitness accounts to this song's existence and its authorship by me.

Due to the inherant unreliablity of eyewitness identification, Judges are required to give special instructions to juries when they are considering identification evidence.

The frailties of eyewitness identification has lead to many instances of wrongful convictions.

Explicitly citing the Innocence Network Brief, the Court held that Oregon's previous standard for the admissibility of eyewitness identifications (i.e. the Classen test) was «insufficient to ensure that unreliable evidence will be excluded» (24).

In a case where the primary evidence against the defendant is the identification of an eyewitness, a defendant should be permitted to present expert testimony on the reliability of eyewitness identification, whether or not there is additional corroborative evidence that could weigh in favor of guilt.

If these procedures are not followed to the letter of the law, the Supreme Court ought to exclude the use of eyewitness identifications by prosecutors altogether.

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

There is only one chance to test the memory of an eyewitness as their memories can become contaminated.

In order to cite adultery, there must be some evidence, but not to the extent of eyewitness testimony.

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.

In his decision, Superior Court Judge Thomas F. McGuire, Jr., found that one juror during Jones» 1986 trial was «racially biased» and that the lead Brockton, Mass. police detective assigned to the investigation testified falsely as to the circumstances under which a key piece of evidence for the prosecution - a videotaped interview of an eyewitness - was altered before trial.

Holding: The Due Process Clause does not require an inquiry into the reliability of an eyewitness identification when the identification was not procured under unnecessarily suggestive circumstances by law enforcement.

Interesting to hear peoples» reactions in Medford... my first thought on reading this article was that someone should publish a list of the 1,000 schools that would collapse in an earthquake — perhaps along with a couple of eyewitness accounts from Sichuan.

The darkness that the clouds of dust and smoke created was, in the ones of an eyewitness, ``... not the dark of a moonless or cloudy night, -LSB-...]

«Misidentification: The Caprices of Eyewitness Testimony in Criminal Cases» An article published by the Center for Criminal Justice Advocacy.

We've all heard of eyewitness and even earwitness accounts.

Wells's paper served as an organizing principle for the growing field of eyewitness psychology, and it has defined his career path ever since.

Now they wanted to go much further: They hoped that the Supreme Court justices would use the case to reexamine the whole legal question of eyewitness memory — a question the court hadn't considered since 1977.

Although only a few cities and states have adopted laws to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications, there seems to be a growing interest in doing so.

Science can and should inform judicial processes to improve the accuracy and assessment of eyewitness accounts.

Reconstructing Memories The uncritical acceptance of eyewitness accounts may stem from a popular misconception of how memory works.

Many individuals have been falsely accused of a crime based, at least in part, on confident eyewitness identifications, a fact that has bred distrust of eyewitness confidence in the U.S. legal system.

Error - Prone IDs A number of factors can reduce the accuracy of eyewitness identifications.

Juries are told to discount the value of eyewitness testimony and ignore how confident the witnesses may be about whom they think they saw.

But factoring in the confidence of the eyewitness painted a different picture.

The National Youth Organiser, Sammy Awuku, who revealed this on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News said the party is expected to take a firm decision on the development today [Wednesday].

Speaking on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News on May 12, 2017, Mr. Smith emphatically stated that, «we should change the whole guard.

«The NDC will emerge much stronger and I do believe that in four years time, the NPP will choke under its own lies and propaganda and that is the truth,» the MP stated on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News.

Speaking on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News, Mr. Adams said: «I worked for the vehicles.

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Speaking on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News, Mr. Simons said: «When you look at how much SSNIT invests and the mechanisms through which it invests, you have to start becoming very worried.

Speaking on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News, the Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid has said government will accept the vehicles if it discovers the contract was transparent enough.

He further told host of Eyewitness News» Richard Dela Sky that his government did no wrong by signing new contracts.

Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemka who made this revelation on Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News however fell short of mentioning names of persons involved.

Making his case on Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News, Mr. Blay said: «If you needed people to undertake the biggest battle of an election and you thought that those that were in charge will not contribute to winning so you put them aside and you put other people in charge and they go to the battle and they are victorious.

As many of the eyewitness accounts have stated since, the majority of the people on board were men.

However interview methods based on psychological research can improve the accuracy of eyewitness accounts from vulnerable witnesses.

Speaking on the Point - Blank segment of Eyewitness News, Mr. Smith emphatically that, «we should change the whole guard.

There are scores of eyewitness accounts from major players in the drama plus exclusive never - before published quotes from Sir Alf Ramsey and Bobby Moore.

The Gospel, then, is the account of an eyewitness, a person privy to the thoughts and feelings of Jesus, and one of his dearest friends.

Not the first person as would be expected of eyewitness testimony.

Yet if grand juries and courts were to be deprived of all evidence subject to that reproach, a significant amount of eyewitness testimony would be eliminated.

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.

One critic has observed that the drawing «looks like the urgent notes of an eyewitness to Christ's passion.»

The meaning of testimony seems then inverted; the word no longer designates an action of speech, the oral report of an eyewitness about a fact to which he was witness.

The notion of the eyewitness is thus profoundly overthrown by the dual theme of Christ — a faithful witness — and of testimony — testimony to the light.

Generally, we come to learn about history through the accounts of the eyewitness.

«Do we start with man's ideas, who wasn't here during man's supposed billions of years of earth history or do we start with the Bible, the written revelation of the eyewitness account of the eternal God who created it all?»