While an overwhelming percentage of criminal trials involve eyewitness testimony, an overwhelming percentage of those witnesses either know the suspect or are police officers and other professionals.
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And this returns us to the problem of eyewitness testimony.
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If stock charts were the equivalent of eyewitness testimony, St.
The case rested largely on the eyewitness testimony of a career criminal named Robert Fitzgerald, who had been an informant for prosecutors before and was in the witness-protection program.
After I'd returned to Jakarta I offered to let a senior government official hear some of the eyewitness testimony I'd collected in Liquica - but she wasn't really interested.
He was convicted almost exclusively on the basis of unreliable eyewitness identification testimony.
The strongest of that evidence is the eyewitness testimony from more than 10 ex-teammates and employees.
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We have presented to you a great amount of direct evidence, grand jury testimony, eyewitness testimony, documentary evidence, but juries can use circumstantial evidence as well.
It was based on eyewitness testimony, photos and forensic analysis of a used grenade cartridge.
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Eyewitness testimony under oath is enough to convict someone of murder.
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According to the Innocence Project, a legal advocacy group, about 75% of false convictions that are later overturned are based on faulty eyewitness testimony.
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This is a serious problem with eyewitness testimony, and especially with using criminals as witnesses who might cut deals of their own to conform their testimony to what police and prosecutors want to hear.
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