Sentences with phrase «on eyewitness testimonies»

Accident reconstruction professionals heavily rely on eyewitness testimonies along with police and medical reports to piece together what happened, why and who was at fault.

In the absence of historical evidence to the contrary, our views are formed by the clear tradition of near contemporary accounts, preserved that our faith might be well founded on eyewitness testimonies within the Tradition of the Church.

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.

The study supposedly took place at the Ar Research Station in Gotland, but the whistleblowers say it never happened, based on eyewitness testimony and other evidence.

My son is now a criminal defense attorney and an expert on eyewitness testimony (which he has written about for Edutopia.org), and, frankly, I'm not surprised.

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

DeLuna was convicted based on the eyewitness testimony of Kevan Baker, who had seen the assault at a gas station which turned into the murder.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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

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

Everything indicates that Paul himself interpreted the lightning - struck encounter with the resurrected Lord on the way to Damascus as an appearance which links his experience to the chain of eyewitness testimonies of the life of Jesus and of the resurrection (Acts 22:14, 15; 26:15 - 20).

It's possible that the DNA could be wrong, or that the reenactment models could be off, but in the absence of any actual eyewitness (and even that testimony is not as reliable as once assumed) testimony to an event it is the best we have to go on, right?

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?»

The bible was AT BEST based on the oral transmission of alleged eyewitness testimony.

The second argument turned on the fact that the New Testament itself; and more especially Luke, appeals to the testimony of «eyewitnesses and ministers of the word» (Luke 1.2).

@ 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.

You said:» the gospel of John encourages us to believe based on the testimony of others who were «eyewitnesses» to key events,»

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.

Yet, Protestant / evangelical Christians will believe as absolute fact, that a first century dead man walked out of his tomb after three days of decomposing, ate a broiled fish lunch with his friends, and then levitated into outer space based on the testimony of... one..., possible, eyewitness» testimony!

Testimony after testimony of independent eyewitnesses, survivors and journalists attest to the premeditated, systematic targeting of Sikhs on the streets and in theTestimony after testimony of independent eyewitnesses, survivors and journalists attest to the premeditated, systematic targeting of Sikhs on the streets and in thetestimony of independent eyewitnesses, survivors and journalists attest to the premeditated, systematic targeting of Sikhs on the streets and in their homes.

We are promised «eyewitness testimony, gritty reconstruction and compelling storytelling, taking you on a rollercoater of suspense and jeopardy, right to the heart of each courageous story.»

One third of these overturned cases rested on the testimony of two or more mistaken eyewitnesses.

IN 1984 KIRK BLOODSWORTH was convicted of the rape and murder of a nine - year - old girl and sentenced to the gas chamber — an outcome that rested largely on the testimony of five eyewitnesses.

Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human history.

«Eyewitness Testimony Doesn't Make It True» A commentary, originally published in the Hartford Courant, on the Yale Law School Web site.

«The Eyewitnesses» A page on the JFK Assassination Resources Online Web site that features a list of links to eyewitness testimony about John F. Kennedy's assassination, the killing of police officer J.D. Tippit, and the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald.

«Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Identification: A New Pair of Glasses for the Jury» A preview of an article in the American Criminal Law Review.

Eyewitness Testimony A page on the Web site of the University of California at San Diego that gives a snapshot of information to get discussion started.

Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials and interviews with second - generation Jews, and to eyewitness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep.

Through eyewitness testimony, reenactments, and video documentation, the artists will create an installation that explores individuals and their evidence suggesting mankind is not alone on Earth.

In this case, they will likely rely on the social media video, breathalyzer results, and eyewitness testimony.

Accident attorney Luke Ellis obtained testimony from a number of eyewitnesses which placed the fault 100 % on the defendant driver and discovered that the driver was without a permanent license, having been hired by the trucking company only recently.

Ultimately, a successful prosecution typically hinges on the testimony of eyewitnesses who are often not very reliable, which raises a possible defense of mistaken identity.

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.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the defendant's conviction, choosing not to adopt a presumption of admissibility for expert testimony on eyewitness identification evidence.