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Week_4_Eyewitness_Testimony.docx Eyewitness Testimony Grand Canyon University PSY-102-0501: General Psychology Introduction Eyewitness memories are the most important information for investig... ations in criminal offences (Wells &Memon& Penrod, 2006). Eyewitnesses testimonies have been the biggest way for judge or police to have an explanation given to them on what has occurred. An eyewitness is a person who has witnessed or is a victim of a crime and is called into the court to describe what they saw during the crime that is under investigation. For instance, someone may be called as an eyewitness to a robbery, or a car accident that has happened. Eyewitness testimonies are the account of what they saw and remember happening from that crime. If a person only saw the end result, they wouldn™t be called to be an eyewitness because they didn™t see the whole thing happen. Eyewitness testimonies have negative and positive effects in the court room on cases. Article 1 The first article is about how eyewitness™ have been found unreliable because one issue that can happen is their memories get mixed together. Many people are convicted due to inaccuracy in eyewitnesses because the judge and jury believe what the eyewitness said even if it was not accurate(Innocence Project, 2018). Two studies were done about a fake crime to see how their memories remembered it. In the study they interviewed everyone in the simulated crime to see how reliable their information was. The way interviewers checked this was by p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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