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Eyewitness Testimony FAILURE

submitted by berticus

1 decade 5 years 4 months 1 week ago

>75% of wrongful convictions are the result of (at least) false eyewitness identification.

13 Comments

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4V6aoYuDcg&feature=related

Wait wait wait... are you telling me that all those people who see UFOs, Bigfoots, Loch Ness Monsters, Jesus in a cheeto could be WRONG?!?!#?$

Sniper007 says...

... I really hope in 20 years we don't find out that DNA evidence is baloney. REALLY.

I despise this sort of uncritical method of investigation. I feel that the woman though raped should spend time in prison for False Accusation.

So sure, and you see why as a society we cannot trust the assumption of one person.

Scientific testing is the only way.

campionidelmondo

Made me remember this clip.

Dave Chapelle on Police-Descriptions

ugh...do me a favor and take everything 60 Minutes spouts off with a glass of gin

So a quarter of the time, false testimony is correct? Cool.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1067

Another excellent story on the same subject that's really worth a listen.

I don't care about the general message here, but the reaction of that man being displayed in the last minutes of this video gave me hope for mankind. BIG *promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, August 14th, 2009 1:41pm PDT - promote requested by rasch187.

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, August 14th, 2009 6:14pm PDT - promote requested by eric3579.

I didn't watch part 2 yet, but let me guess what happened : she didn't have her glass on ?

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