Being a Witness/Memory and Attention
What are line up issues, visual characteristics, and anxiety/stress examples of?
Factors that will affect eyewitness testimony.
What year were fingerprints established?
700S
Are you always going to be looking for the same materials when collecting evidence in every case?
No. It will be based on each individual case.
What are the four names of the mission statements of The Innocence Project?
Exonerate, Improve, Reform, and Support
When evaluating eyewitness testimony what must you discriminate between?
Fact and opinion
What did the FBI database introduce?
Computerized searches of a fingerprint database
How are liquids stored?
In airtight, unbreakable containers.
What are contamination, misplacement, and poor preservation examples of?
Issues of poor collection of DNA that will be thrown out in a court case.
Knowing how to make breakfast is what type of memory?
Long term implicit memory
Who was the first to individualize bullets to a gun barrel?
Alexandre Lacassagne
What is a Bindle?
It is a clean sheet of paper that is folded in a defined manner in a series of steps to store evidence
What percentage of faulty eyewitness accounts contributed to wrongful convictions?
87 percent