tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post4501393137379410251..comments2024-03-15T05:45:01.402-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Public hearing to evaluate eyewitness ID model policyGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-85181327222211725792011-12-01T10:26:31.127-06:002011-12-01T10:26:31.127-06:00There's an old saying that says "What I t...There's an old saying that says "What I thought I said was not what you thought you heard." The same holds true for eyewitness observation. What I thought I saw may not have anything with what you thought you did or didn't do. <br /><br />As long as eyewitness testimony is taken as gospel, innocent people will be convicted and guilty ones will get off free. Too many eyewitness accounts are just that, eyewitness accounts and not concrete evidence of anything - and it has nothing to do with snitching and everything to do with an incomplete biased observation compounded by a cop who has to be right and make an arrest.<br /><br />I'm really glad that there is a public hearing to try and discuss this issue. Maybe there actually is some intelligent life out there after all.RSO wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125370082588943280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-90462929271489463162011-12-01T09:42:47.280-06:002011-12-01T09:42:47.280-06:00To me, the most interesting part of this is blog p...To me, the most interesting part of this is blog post is: <br /><br />"The Innocence Project of Texas plans to request all those local policies - more than 1,000 of them - under open records next fall to determine which departments included all the important elements and which ones are still using inadequate procedures.)"<br /><br />If the defense bar can understand, and use, the inevitable delays or failures in the implementation of these policies, they will surely have a better chance to undermine prosecutors' attempts to secure convictions that are largely, or exclusively, based on eyewitness id.Kevin Stouwienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58291386366650821312011-11-30T18:46:42.486-06:002011-11-30T18:46:42.486-06:00How much do eyewitnesses really see?
Not much!How much do eyewitnesses really see?<br />Not much!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-67515227195247154112011-11-30T13:38:14.250-06:002011-11-30T13:38:14.250-06:00I've seen way too many suggestive photo or liv...I've seen way too many suggestive photo or live show-ups employed throughout the years to make the identification come out the way the cop thinks is should at the time. It is many, many years overdue to have a fair and uniform procedure for the development of eyewitness identification evidence. Just ask Timothy Cole's family...Old Copnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-2741837902895409692011-11-30T09:55:00.303-06:002011-11-30T09:55:00.303-06:00I'd say it's the raft of DNA exonerations ...I'd say it's the raft of DNA exonerations based on false IDs that undermined eyewitness testimony more than this blog ever could. I don't really get the snitching reference. Troll.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-38860534441967280462011-11-30T09:45:42.748-06:002011-11-30T09:45:42.748-06:00We must undermine the eyewitness. No snitching!We must undermine the eyewitness. No snitching!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com