Dorion Johnson (a witness in the shooting of Michael brown) should go to jail for lying.

Memory in Use of Force Situations It's amazing how the mind works in situations that are high stress, when adrenaline is in full force. I remember a fatal accident I was in. I was driving along and a car passed in front of me, pulling out from a parking lot, while I was going 55mph. My vision got extremely narrow, only seeing the truck and knowing impact was inevitable. Everything seemed to move in extremely slow motion. It was as if I had hours to think about, what I would do in those few seconds. I hit the brakes, not to avoid the crash, but to slow the impact by only 1 or 2 mph, knowing that any ease in impact could reduce the chances of injury or fatality for all involved, had I known the crash was into a getaway car from a robbery, I may have stepped on the gas harder, but that information didn't come until much later, in the mean time I had no ideal whether this was an accident or whether I had just committed vehicular manslaughter. Everything was fuzzy. When I went to dial my Fiance, my fingers doubled in size, and I couldn't seem to press two buttons on my cellphone to get ahold of her. Fortunately some bystander knew how to operate a cell phone and made the call for me. The reason I bring this up, is because many people reading this have been through high stress, adrenaline pumping scenarios. The brain works funny when recalling these events, maybe you didn't have time slow down, maybe it speed up. Maybe you got tunnel vision, maybe not. Some people lose hearing during these moments, some make better decisions, some make worse. I. Studies looking at officers memories in use of force situations, the following has been determined; "In another study a researcher surveyed law enforcement personnel over a 6-year period after their involvement in a shooting. She found that more than 60 percent experienced the incident in slow motion, while 17 percent recalled the pace speeding up. Almost 90 percent of the officers reported auditory lockout, and 16 percent heard intensified sounds. Similarly, more than 70 percent reported experiencing heightened clarity of vision and responding to the threat not with conscious thought, but, rather, while on "autopilot." Forty percent claimed disassociation"an altered state of consciousness commonly characterized as detachment from one"s emotions, body, or immediate surroundings"while 46 percent reported memory loss." http://leb.fbi.gov... Officers have a special advantage in recalling use of force incidents. They're questioned after some passing of time, because studies have indicated that these high stress incidents are more accurately recalled after a few days has passed. Unfortunately, average citizens don't have the same advantages. They are questioned immediately after these incidents, and the are more likely to be inaccurate in how they report the incident. http://www.forcescience.org... Memory issues can get extremely big in use of force scenarios not only for cops, but all involved. Take for example the following; "Wyatt had stated that the van had traveled "approximately fifty feet" in "less than ten" and possibly "less than five" seconds and was going about "50 miles per hour" when he shot the driver. As an "unbuckled passenger in a fast-moving vehicle driven by an escaping suspect," he felt he was in immediate and significant threat of death or serious injury. However, the plaintiff's lawyer argued that "Wyatt's story fails to hold together." By Wyatt's own estimates, the attorney calculated, the van actually had to have been traveling so slowly that he could not have been in jeopardy. In her brief, the lawyer pointed out that a vehicle that travels 50 ft. in 10 seconds would have an average speed of only 3.4 mph. One judge in the appellate panel seized on this "glaring inconsistency" to conclude that Wyatt's "self-serving account" was "physically impossible." He wrote: "Nobody should mistake 3.4 miles per hour for 50. If the time period is cut to five seconds, the average speed only increases to 6.8 miles per hour. That is hard to mistake for 50 miles per hour, as well." If Wyatt was inside a vehicle that, in reality, "might have been slowly rolling forward," the judge wrote, "a reasonable jury might conclude" that his shooting the driver dead was "unreasonable." He voted in favor of kicking the case back to the district level for trial. The majority of the panel, however, upheld the summary judgment. Given the circumstances, the majority ruled, the use of force by Wyatt and his partner was "not excessive or disproportionate to the quickly escalating situation." As a captive inside an accelerating car with a resistant subject at the wheel, the officer was clearly in jeopardy, and the "absolute certainty of harm need not precede an act of self-protection." As to the "inconsistency" of Wyatt's recollections of time and distance, these should be regarded merely as "rough estimates," the prevailing justices said. Revealing a fundamental understanding of the effect of extreme stress on memory, the court noted: "It would be surprising if an officer could recount precise quantitative details about an incident which took mere seconds" to occur. "A minor inconsistency in officer testimony does not alone create a dispute of material fact" These situations are quite common, we'll see huge discrepancies of what actually occurred and memory recall in use of force scenarios. If we charged everyone with perjury who incorrectly recalled events, than we'd have to charge everyone who has ever been in a use of force scenario. One of the reasons, it is pretty rare for a prosecutor to file perjury charges, is because the prosecutor must prove that an individual intentionally lied. If the individual is mistaken than perjury has not been committed. With the high amount of stress involved in use of force scenarios, and the memory problems so common and associated with them, the charge should be extremely rare and certainly not used in the case my opponent mentions. http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com...