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Judges and jurists have great faith in the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. Psychologists however would have us believe eyewitnesses have little to offer the Criminal Justice System. Discuss
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Judges and jurists have great faith in the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. Psychologists however would have us believe eyewitnesses have little to offer the Criminal Justice System. Discuss The accuracy of eyewitness testimony is worse than the general public thinks, but not as bad as some psychologists would have us believe. Discuss Argued to be 'among the most damning of all evidence that can be used in a court of law' (Loftus, E., 1979, p.8), eyewitness testimony is one of the most disputed areas in forensic psychology. A series of 'staged-court' experiments, conducted in 1979 by Loftus demonstrated the power of an eyewitness' testimony: Mock juries executed an enormous 54% swing from a non-guilty verdict, to that of guilty within the same case, simply through the introduction of an eyewitness. Recent advances in forensic DNA technology have led to the identification of thousands of perpetrators and the exoneration of thousands of...
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