Wrongful Conviction in Eyewitness Identification Cases: Insights from Empirical Research‚” Andrew Smith and Lisa Dufraimont (2014) address how eyewitness identifications are vital factors in convicting suspects. However‚ some of those identifications are inaccurate or mistaken‚ and innocent people can be wrongly convicted. In fact‚ mistaken eyewitness identification is the main factor in wrongful convictions of the innocent (Smith and Dufraimont‚ 2014). Furthermore‚ eyewitness identifications are not
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police officer should have a good understanding of how a witness feels. According to Wells et al. (1998) researchers have realized that there is an importance in the confidence of the eyewitness. Even the Supreme Court has had eyewitnesses rate their certainty which has been taken into account of the eyewitness accuracy (p. 14). It can be intimidating going up in front of a courtroom. The confidence of a witness plays a huge part in court. Even if the suspect is the wrong one the jury is more likely
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father. The evidence brought forth in the trial is the testimony of an old man who lives in the apartment about the boy’s‚ a switchblade knife‚ the boy’s sketchy alibi‚ and the eyewitness testimony of a woman who lives across from the boy’s apartment building. With the evidence making the boy appear guilty‚ a single juror questions the accuracy of the evidence and tries to implant reasonable doubt within the other jurors. The testimony of the old man that lives in the apartment about the boy’s
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Outline and Evaluate the effects of Age on Eye Witness Testimony (EWT). With child abuse cases on the rise‚ children are being used as evidence in the courtroom; this involves them giving accurate eye witness testimony. Parker and Carranza conducted a laboratory study in 1989 to study the accuracy of age in eye witness testimony. They showed a mock crime scene video to a sample of primary school children and a sample of college students. They found that the primary school children were more likely
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contributions to risk assessment with respect to the potential for violence and dangerousness‚ the accuracy of eye witness testimony‚ the dimensions and assessment of legal competency According to Krauss‚ Liberman‚ & Olson‚ the Texas dealth penalty case Barefoot v. Estelle showed that jurors are more influenced by less scientific clinical expert testimony‚ and less influenced by more scientific actuarial expert testimony. By applying cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) to juror decision-making‚ the present
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time. Her research was associated with eyewitness recollection earning her numerous awards and she even attended numerous court duties as an expert witness. (Bower) In addition‚ much of the research presented by Elizabeth Loftus featured the untrustworthiness of memory. That memory was susceptible to suggestion of ideas and the twisting of facts. Furthermore‚ it paved way to encouraging a more accurate view on the consistency of an observer or eyewitness. Everyone should be encouraged to read this
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it be deeply ingrained biases growing up‚ or just a prejudice that came about from growing up it has immense repercussions on wrongful convictions. Next‚ is a huge factor that affects many wrongful convictions cases. That would be eyewitness identification. Eyewitness identification has some good factors but also many bad factors. For instance‚ we looked into many studies on how sequential lineups can reduce false identifications of innocent suspects by reducing eyewitnesses’ reliance on relative
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• 2. What are some examples of ways in which observational learning has benefited you in your life? Are there instances in which observational learning has worked to your disadvantage? I have helped in the CCD program in our local church for a second year now. Observational learning has benefited me because‚ I have no teaching skills and I am not a social person‚ I usually was just a helper and never really taught the course‚ there have been instances where the teacher has not been able to come
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common causes of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentification‚ improper forensic science‚ false confessions‚ government misconduct‚ informants/jailhouse snitches‚ and inadequate counseling. Bruce MacFarlane‚ a Canadian lawyer said that the single most important factor leading to wrongful convictions is eyewitness misidentification.
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picture is worth a thousand words’. Often for investigating officers‚ eye witness testimony and what is seen‚ is heavily relied on in order to prosecute crimes (Wells and Olsen‚ 2003). As such eye witness testimony and memory has become one of the most researched areas in Cognitive Psychology. What can be quite disconcerting is that from the research conducted into this area‚ the consensus seems to be that eyewitness testimony is unreliable due to many different factors. One of the most familiar being
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