Reliability Of Eye Witness3

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Reliability of Eye Witness

One the article, a case is brought before the United State Supreme Court about a Boxer

and a Talmudic scholar, to an appeal a convicted new convict Burglar Hampshire. The case was

about a break-in of a vehicle that took place in the mid-night. A woman witness had identified a

‘tall black man” peering into the car. The woman had seen the suspect briefly and assumed he

was a criminal.

The phycologist challenged the witness memory saying that jury should have allowed a

pretrial judgment to decide on whether it should have been admissible to the court at all. They

hoped that the judges would reexamine the legal question of eyewitness memory.

Past studies had proven that there was nothing more unreliable than what eyewitness may

think they saw. It brought before the jury that memory was not to be taken as videotape, and the

witness the witness has in their minds that they remember correctly, but most witness’s ability of

the memories is a more than one idea of what people think they observed and what they had been

exposed to after testifying.

Elizabeth Loftus at California university demonstrates that memory apart from being

interchangeable is also fallible. She proved that even when a single word was altered, witnesses

change the story of what they think they had seen. Well after studying all this study he suggested

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a new way of structuring the eyewitness questions. He proposes two, one which he called

‘estimator variable’ because its effect could only be recognized after the facts got. The second

one ‘system variable ‘since it involved things that a detective could control.

Wells concludes the research by finding that memory is changeable as well as fileable. Change

in the way of examining people even in circumstances when difference amounts to one word

could change what they thought they could have seen. Well says that every mistake created

causes ‘double injustice’ one for the person put behind bars but also another for the rest of us

when the people who are involved in the crime remains free.

This study arouses critical questions that must be discussed. One would ask how do

eyewitness memory impact lineups, show-ups, and photo identification. Moreover, one would

ask what some of the key strategies are can law enforcement use to reduce false eyewitness and

bias. These fundamental questions are discussed below;

IMPACT OF WITNESS MEMORY

In a show-up, where witnesses are shown pictures of suspects on the crime scene,

Witnesses substantially altered what they had started as a description of a suspect (such as

critical information such as weight, height, and presence of facial hair) after they learned more

about a specific defendant(Dyer,510).

Witnesses were able to make an identification after several images lineups and then went

reluctantly in identifications (saying they "thought" the person "might be" the perpetrator, for

instance), but at pretrial, the court was told the witnesses was not hesitant in identifying the

perpetrator.

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STRATEGIES LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN USE TO REDUCE FALSE

EYEWITNESS.

Law enforcement usually takes a lead role in reducing and preventing wrongful

convictions by eliminating the arrest of the wrong person, and also for law enforcement officials

to improve, policies, training, supervision, assessment and investigative protocols.

In reducing false attestation by witness law enforcement have to improve on Eyewitness

identifications, a more better array of procedures, better officer training, and more research. Law

enforcement needs to be highly trained to avoid mistakes on eyewitness identification and

presentation of evidence to the eyewitnesses (Smith et al.,591). Training would increase

efficiency in reducing false information, and law enforcers would examine facts more accurately

hence preventing wrongful convictions.

Leveraging technology incorporates the evaluation of current procedures and takes time

in bringing up new technology would also be a good strategy for reducing false information from

a witness. This would also help in keeping records so that every time further information arises,

it would quickly be examined. When all files are held together, an excellent critical thinking

analysis would be done one the data hence compacting likelihoods of the creation of false

eyewitness (Peebles, Patrick, et al.,961).

In conclusion, eyewitness information is indeed not only fallible but also changeable, and

hence it should be sifted through to prevent false eyewitness and bias leading to wrongful

convictions.

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Work Cited

Dyer, C. "Muzzling Scientific Debate Will Lead to False Convictions, Warns Expert

Witness." BMJ, vol 342, no. jan26 1, 2011, pp. d510-d510. BMJ, doi:10.1136/bmj. d510.

"Evidence. Direct Testimony. Contract Requiring Eye-Witness to Accident." Columbia Law

Review, vol 21, no. 2, 1921, p. 192. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/1112430.

. Smith, Sidonia, and Julia Watson. "Witness or False Witness: Metrics of Authenticity,

Collective I-Formations, And the Ethic of Verification in First-Person

Testimony." Biography, vol 35, no. 4, 2012, pp. 590-626. Johns Hopkins University

Press, doi:10.1353/bio.2012.0047.

Peebles, Patrick et al. "Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon, 1602-1796: A Comprehensive

Work of Pictorial Reference with Selected Eye-Witness Accounts." The Journal of Asian

Studies, vol 50, no. 4, 1991, p. 961. Cambridge University Press (CUP),

doi:10.2307/2058601.

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