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Kurska

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12. Perhaps not in this case, but false memories is a major problem with eye witness testimony.

Reply to boston bean (Reply #9)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 08:35 PM

Feb 2014

http://agora.stanford.edu/sjls/Issue%20One/fisher&tversky.htm

This is generally geared toward identifying a suspect you do not know (whereas this person knew Sandusky well and it is hard to believe he would misidentify him), so not really applicable to this case, but interesting none the less.

There are many many innocent people in prison right now via faulty eyewitness testimony.

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knr Sienna86 Feb 2014 #1

Maybe someone will come along with the hypothesis that... LanternWaste Feb 2014 #2

*Rolls eyes* Kurska Feb 2014 #3

Sandusky should have had PR people and lawyers and used lotsa influence and money boston bean Feb 2014 #4

If you really want to compare Kurska Feb 2014 #7

Whose to say those eye witnesses weren't lying or having a false memory. boston bean Feb 2014 #9

Perhaps not in this case, but false memories is a major problem with eye witness testimony. Kurska Feb 2014 #12

The OP wants to pretend the Sandusky case, where there were multiple accusers over a period El_Johns Feb 2014 #14

You just flunked the mind-reading test. I was responding to a post about another man, pnwmom Feb 2014 #15

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Thank you for your post BrotherIvan Feb 2014 #8

I was in the same boat justiceischeap Feb 2014 #11

They always insist they didn't molest anyone BainsBane Feb 2014 #6

The child molester who devastated my family Z_I_Peevey Feb 2014 #10

It has been sickening BainsBane Feb 2014 #13