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43: 792: 727: 686: 967:, the different ways in which we make sense of the world around us. That is done by employing the mental skills at one's disposal like thinking, perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, and judgment. Although cognitive processes can be only inferred and cannot be seen directly, they all have very important practical implications within a legal context. 846: 970:
If one were to accept that the way people think, perceive, reason, and judge is not always perfect, it becomes easier to understand why cognitive processes and the factors influencing the processes are studied by psychologists in matters of law, one being the grave implications that this imperfection
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is someone who claimed to have witnessed an event or have hearsay information, but whose identity is being withheld from at least one party (typically the criminal defendant). The information from the confidential informant may have been used by a police officer or other official acting as a hearsay
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in which the eyewitness picks out a suspect from a group of people in the police station are often grossly suggestive, and they give the false impression that the witness remembered the suspect. In another study, students watched a staged crime. An hour later they looked through photos. A week later
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witness is one who testifies about what someone else said or wrote. In most court proceedings there are many limitations on when hearsay evidence is admissible. Such limitations do not apply to grand jury investigations, many administrative proceedings, and may not apply to declarations used in
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may result from such factors as faulty observation and recollection, or bias, or may involve a witness's knowingly giving false testimony. If several people witness a crime, it is possible to look for commonalities in their testimony, which are more likely to represent events as they occurred,
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is one who allegedly has specialized knowledge relevant to the matter of interest, which knowledge purportedly helps to either make sense of other evidence, including other testimony, documentary evidence or physical evidence (e.g., a fingerprint). An expert witness may or may not also be a
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is one who incriminates former accomplices in a crime who following receive either a lower sentence, immunity or also a protection of themselves or/and their family by the court. After they have provided the court with their testimony they often enter into a witness protection program.
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although differences are to be expected and don't of themselves indicate dishonesty. Witness identification will help investigators get an idea of what a criminal suspect looks like, but eyewitness recollection include mistaken or misleading elements.
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Dowd, Rebecca; Hunter, Jill; Liddell, Belinda; McAdam, Jane; Nickerson, Angela; Bryant, Richard (11 July 2018). "Filling Gaps and Verifying Facts: Assumptions and Credibility Assessment in the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal".
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they were asked to pick the suspect out of lineups. 8% of the people in the lineups were mistakenly identified as criminals. 20% of the innocent people whose photographs were included were mistakenly identified.
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The study of witness memory has dominated the realm of investigation. As Huff and Rattner note, the single most important factor contributing to wrongful conviction is eyewitness misidentification.
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means calling a witness, who has already given testimony in a proceeding, to give further testimony. A court may give leave to a party to recall a witness only to give evidence about a matter
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Leippe, Michael R.; Manion, Andrew P.; Romanczyk, Ann (August 1992). "Eyewitness persuasion: How and how well do fact finders judge the accuracy of adults' and children's memory reports?".
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Huff, C. Ronald; Rattner, Arye; Sagarin, Edward; MacNamara, Donal E. J. (5 September 2016). "Guilty Until Proved Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy".
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in a criminal case. Jurors heard a description of a robbery-murder, a prosecution argument, and then an argument for the defense. Some jurors heard only
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Witnesses are usually permitted to testify only what they experienced first-hand. In most cases, they may not testify about something they were told (
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Another study looked at 65 cases of "erroneous criminal convictions of innocent people." In 45% of the cases, eyewitness mistakes were responsible.
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is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what they know or claim to know.
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support of an arrest or search warrant. Also some types of statements are not deemed to be hearsay and are not subject to such limitations.
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Ebbesen, Ebbe B.; Rienick, Cynthia B. (1998). "Retention interval and eyewitness memory for events and personal identifying attributes".
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Lakatos, I. (1970). Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In: Lakatos, I. & Musgrave, A. E. (eds.),
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Roediger III, H. L. (2001). Reconstructive Memory, Psychology of. IN: Smelser, N. J. & Baltes, P. B. (eds.) International
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may be used by the side that called the witness but usually only to contradict specific testimony from the cross-examination.
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by another party if the second party's testimony contradicts evidence given by the original witness on direct examination.
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Read, J. D. (2001). Eyewitness Memory: Psychological Aspects. IN: Smelser, N. J. & Baltes, P. B. (eds.) International
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Although informally a witness includes whoever perceived the event, in law, a witness is different from an informant. A
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Credible witnesses must be used to give meaning or existence to certain types of legal documents. For example, in most
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Newcombe, Peter A.; Bransgrove, Jennifer (July 2007). "Perceptions of witness credibility: Variations across age".
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Johnson, M. K. (2001). False Memories, Psychology of. IN: Smelser, N. J. & Baltes, P. B. (eds.) International
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percipient witness, as in a doctor or may or may not have treated the victim of an accident or crime.
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Wong, Anna (2020). "Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Irrelevance of Demeanour in Witness Assessments".
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is a legal document that commands a person to appear at a proceeding. It is used to compel the
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Tenney, Elizabeth R.; MacCoun, Robert J.; Spellman, Barbara A.; Hastie, Reid (January 2007).
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The formal study of eyewitness memory is usually undertaken within the broader category of
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testifies about the personality of a defendant if it helps to solve the crime in question.
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A witness might be compelled to provide testimony in court, before a grand
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Although eyewitness testimony is often assumed to be more reliable than
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Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice
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Victims and witnesses of crime (Directgov, England and Wales)
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One study involved an experiment, in which subjects acted as
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is a person who acts as a witness, including through giving
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