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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Witness Testimony"”.
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Witness testimony : the communication of remembered information
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Communication,
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Jurors' Perceptions of Gender Differences in Expert Witness Testimony
… appearing in court to testify as expert witnesses. However, the use of psychology in the legal system has a history dating back to Thucydides in the fifth century B.C. The early focus of psychology was on the determination of insanity. Later, eye witness testimony (especially of children …
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Expert witness testimony in jury verdicts when battered women kill
… jury verdicts when traumatic brain injury expert testimony is provided and (b) examine the relationship between the verdicts when battered women syndrome expert witness testimony is provided, in Rowan University undergraduate students (N = 100). Students were provided with experimental packets, …
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The effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdict: psychiatry versus psychology
… this study was to explore the effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdicts. We, further, assessed whether there would be a difference in the relative influence of MDs and PhD expert witnesses. Undergraduate and graduate students served as mock jurors and were presented with an insanity …
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An Evaluation of Metric Methods of Race Differentiation in the Human Pelvic Girdle for the Application of Expert Witness Testimony
<p>Research has shown that measurements from the pelvic bones and femur can be utilized for race estimation when the skull is absent or damaged. The literature reported levels up to 95% accuracy when utilizing discriminant function analysis to simultaneously classify race and sex. This research …
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Perjury and Memory in the English Law Courts, 1660–1688
… explores the relationships between memory and witness perjury, or lying under oath, in the law courts of later seventeenth-century England. Although there has been excellent work on perjury in early modern England, this work is limited for the later seventeenth century, and does not interrogate …
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First impressions from the jury box: how the length of expert testimony influences mock trial deliberations
… that a juror's first impressions of an expert witness might have on two outcomes: judgments of the witness' credibility, and verdict decisions in a criminal case involving a Not Guilty by Insanity (NGRI) defense. This was the first study to use "thin slice" methodology to manipulate time …
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Comparison of the Biological Attributes, First and Second Level of Detail of Friction Ridge Skin of the Palms and Fingers
… scrutiny. For nearly 100 years, expert witness testimony concerning fingerprint identification has been allowed into courts with little challenge, as it is supported by several areas of research that acknowledge that no two fingerprints are the same; they will remain unchanged during an …
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Access and Information: Testimony in the Texas Senate Committee on Education
… and whether or not an individual gives public testimony; (b) what relationship, if any, exists between an individual’s affiliation with a named interest group and whether an individual testifies; and (c) what type of information (technical, political, or anecdotal) is given by witnesses during …
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Does a rising intonation at the end of a spoken statement affect a witness's credibility?
… has shown that the speech style employed by 11 witness in a jury trial may affect their credibility (Erikson, Lind, Johnson, & ()'Barr, 1978). One common linguistic device used by witnesses is a rising intonation, which is defined as the inflection of a speaker’s tone that occurs at the end of a …
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Computational simulation of skull fracture patterns in pediatric subjects using a porcine model
… the medical literature and unsubstantiated eyewitness accounts. The current process may result in unreliable autopsy interpretation and miscarriages of justice due to a lack of scientific verification in expert witness testimony. A method to examine the mechanisms of skeletal trauma, …
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'I see you have quite gone over to the supernaturalists' : the spiritual and scientific Arthur Conan Doyle
… his belief that circumstantial evidence and eye witness testimony should be utilised to sway scientific scepticism. The thesis concludes by noting how the author finally embraced spiritualism through ideas of spiritual salvation amidst a world doomed by their material pleasures, before briefly …
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Forensic analysis of computer evidence
… the root of the significant differences in the testimony conducted by digital forensic expert witnesses. Lastly, digital forensic expert witness testimony is under great scrutiny because of the lack of standards in both education and investigative methods. To remedy this situation, we developed …
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A Mixed Method Investigation of the Factors that Influence Juror Interpretation of Forensic Science Testimony Presented for the Prosecution in Nine Homicide Trials in the United States
The judicial system calls upon expert witnesses to testify in court when complex or specialized knowledge, beyond that of the lay person, is needed to interpret the evidence. Expert witnesses explain the meaning of the evidence and can express their opinion of its significance within the context of …
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How Psychology’s Empirical Results Can Benefit the Criminal Justice System: Expert Testimony
… have a scientifically incorrect view of eyewitness testimony. The purpose of this study was to examine the most beneficial way to assist the jury in dealing with eyewitness testimony. Duckworth, Kreiner, Stark-Wroblewski, and Marsh (2011) applied interactive participation in an eyewitness …
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Domestic Political Institutions in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making
… Using and original dataset that quantifies witness testimony before the ITC, I find that previous studies have overlooked the substantial political pressure on the ITC from domestic companies that oppose trade protection, as well as from those that seek protection. The ITC remains …
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(Re)Presenting Eichmann: One Man, Many Murders
<p>This thesis argues that the act of recording the trial of Adolf Eichmann was an interpretation by director Leo Hurwitz, and that at the time it was recorded, and since then, the material has been used by different actors for different purposes. I examined the use made of that material by six …