"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Max Rockatansky (11-20-2014),zelmo1234 (11-20-2014)
Guy just got released from death row here. He was convicted in 1975 with eye witness testimony.
My beliefs are a distillation of what I was taught as a child and what I observe as an adult.
Max Rockatansky (11-21-2014)
Agreed. How many people have been wrongly imprisoned with "eye witness" testimony that forensic evidence later proved to be innocent? @Cigar?
There is a group of law students here that are working on over a hundred wrongful conviction cases. That is just here in Ohio.
My beliefs are a distillation of what I was taught as a child and what I observe as an adult.
Max Rockatansky (11-21-2014)
Let's hope the citizens of Ohio favor science over eyewitness testimony. What are your thoughts on this @Cigar?
People don't have to commit perjury to make a mistake.
I give up. How many, sport?
While you're thinking of a reply, consider this:
http://www.innocenceproject.org/unde...tification.php
Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in 72% of convictions overturned through DNA testing.
While eyewitness testimony can be persuasive evidence before a judge or jury, 30 years of strong social science research has proven that eyewitness identification is often unreliable. Research shows that the human mind is not like a tape recorder; we neither record events exactly as we see them, nor recall them like a tape that has been rewound. Instead, witness memory is like any other evidence at a crime scene; it must be preserved carefully and retrieved methodically, or it can be contaminated........