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Eyewitness Testimony Admissibility

Time Estimates: eyewitnesses typically overestimate how long an event took to unfold; 4. Cross-race Bias: eyewitnesses are more ac...

Admissibility of Expert Defense Witness Testimony and A Time to Kill by John Grisham

In five pages this paper discusses the US judicial system in a consideration of expert witness defense testimony admissibility and...

Probative or Prejudicial Eyewitness Testimony?

of such testimony even more controversial (Ebbesen, 2003). There is no contesting the fact that assessing the validity of...

Can Recovered Memories and Eyewitness Testimony Be Trusted?

Men and women are being accused, tried, and convicted with no proof or evidence of guilt other than the word of the accuser" (Loft...

In Court Identification and Eyewitness Testimony

"fallible sensory perception and memory and from suggestive influences" To illustrate this problem it is...

Personality As A Stable Construct, Behavioral Versus Cognitive Learning And The Inaccuracy Of Eyewitness Testimony

the twenty-first century, the question is not does man continue upon this ever-broadening road of tremendous technological discove...

Recall of Eyewitnesses and the Potential for Inaccuracy

potential culprit is in the line-up, the children and the elderly performed as an accuracy rate very similar to that of young adul...

Amicus Brief: Recovered Memories

Children play an entertaining game of telephone operator, where one child whispers a short story to the next child in line, who th...

Examination of False Memories

an even more dangerous approach to getting at the truth in a court case, being that the fairly recent trend toward psychotherapy h...

Health, Environment, and Law

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

The Government Cover Up of the UFO Crash in Roswell, New Mexico

In five pages this paper examines the purported UFO crash in Roswell and basing its argument on the testimony of eyewitnesses as w...

The Problems with Eye Witness Testimony

in the way that evidence is initially gathered (Wells et al, 1990, 1998). There are thee main principles that can explain the w...

Wrongful Conviction

- if not utterly unsettling - accounts with that of the Salem witch trials where personal agenda was the sole motivation that fuel...

Evidence Admissibility

continue working on it "as long as there is workable information," but there is no way to predict how long the investigation will ...

New Jersey Laws Regarding DWI and DUI

or she is guilty no matter what their disposition had been at the time (Marootian, 2005). Between .08% and .10% is considered to b...

Criminal Procedure And Evidence

evidence, such as a written contract that proves the terms of the agreement. This type of evidence is validated by a witness or so...

Student Case Study on Scottish Evidence Law

Havering. [2002] EWCA 2558 where there was a breach of trademark, but it was not an offence if the did not believe the goods to be...

Comparative Analysis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Rape Trauma Syndrome

is administered by a trained counselor for sexual assault victims. The test determines if the alleged victim has indeed been the v...

Phogographic Imagery As Admissible Evidence

not too distant past when law enforcement relied heavily upon luck and anonymous tips to help them solve crimes; today, technology...

Hearsay Rule Exceptions

In five pages examples are provided in an examination of when there are exceptions to the hearsay rule with instances of court cas...

Hearsay Rule and Declarations of the Dying

In twenty pages dying exceptions to the hearsay rule are discussed with definitions and conditions of admissibility considered. E...

Courtroom Admissibility of DNA Evidence

majority of people believe that Simpson is a murderer. In fact, the majority expresses this sentiment after watching testimony. La...

An Eyewitness Voodoo Ritual Account

In this paper consisting of eleven pages an eyewitness account of a Vodun or Voodoo 'day of the dead' ritual is simulated and back...

New Ways of Investigating Street Crime

waiting for the "perp" to arrive on the scene. Community policing, a form of urban law enforcement, is a restructuring plan that ...

The Atrocities of Auschwitz and Balancing Sanity and Survival

human resilience be stretched without being torn asunder, and how long can the spark of human spirit burn within when it is expose...

A Day in Tiananmen Square

This 8 page paper is a creative essay, based on eyewitness accounts, of what happened the day of the massacre in Tiananmen Square....

Ambiguous Meanings Long-Term Memory

This essay discusses several issues that have to do with cognition and memory. Attention and Memory are two of the issues, texting...

Overview of Vampirism

became a variety of vampire lore which abounded. Interestingly enough, however, the basic idea that this entity was the undead, ca...

Identification Procedures & Mirada Issues

It is a fact that there is a tendency for memories to be constructed so that missing information is drawn from "expectations" or "...

Diaz del Castillo/The Conquest of New Spain

and pride of race, a lust of gold and a blind faith in their religion, together with an absolute contempt for that of other men we...