Eyewitness Evidence
Different types of evidence in Eye witness testimony:
When deciding the guilt or innocence of individuals in court, juries, judges, and police investigators rely on three major types of evidence. Often, experts are relied on for information. For example, the mental state of the individual being accused. This “expert testimony,” is not often relied on in Canadian court because some judges believe the information that is offered by experts, Psychologists in particular, is common sense. There are other judges, however, that are more concerned with the jurors reliance on the information being provided rather than evaluating information on their own. Researcher A. Daniel Yarmey discovered that several research involving the testing of eyewitness
When deciding the guilt or innocence of individuals in court, juries, judges, and police investigators rely on three major types of evidence. Often, experts are relied on for information. For example, the mental state of the individual being accused. This “expert testimony,” is not often relied on in Canadian court because some judges believe the information that is offered by experts, Psychologists in particular, is common sense. There are other judges, however, that are more concerned with the jurors reliance on the information being provided rather than evaluating information on their own. Researcher A. Daniel Yarmey discovered that several research involving the testing of eyewitness