RLS : Eye witness accounts

Real-Life Situation regarding eyewitness accounts. 
1. Highlight 5 first-order knowledge claims 

  • 70% of convictions have been over tuned to investigation through DNA testing involved "eyewitness who got it wrong".
  • Kevin Brinkley's murder conviction was mostly based on 2  eye-witnesses.
  • scientific studies over the decade have shown that most eyewitnesses are inaccurate.
  • Brinkley was 15 when he was convicted and sent to jail for life for shooting a delivery men in 1977
  • His brother, Ronald Berkley repeatedly confessed to the crime that his brother had committed over the years of his conviction.

3 - Write 1 knowledge question
  • To what extend can we account the amount of evidence needed in order for it to be reliable?

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