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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