Assertion: eyewitness | /r/CapableOf | make identification
Facets:
value: in criminal investigations
type: LOCATION
value: each year
type: TEMPORAL
value: under pristine conditions
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Statements: As Cotton Case shows, crucial to ask the eyewitness how certain they are at the time they first make an identification and to document this in the eyewitnesses own words.
text: To this point, commentary authors Laura Mickes (Royal Holloway, University of London), Steven E. Clark (University of California, Riverside), and Scott D. Gronlund (University of Oklahoma) present evidence from Wixted and Wells’s analyses showing that confidence can indicate accuracy even when the identification conditions are not pristine – thus, for a jury assessing the accuracy of an identification, knowing how confident the eyewitness was may be more useful than knowing whether she made the identification under pristine conditions.
text: Confidence is only informative at the time that eyewitnesses first make their identification, before they are exposed to various influences that can compromise memory.
text: The officer shall give the eyewitness the following instructions before the lineup: The suspect might or might not be among the people in the lineup; The eyewitness should not feel pressured to make an identification; and An identification or failure to make an identification will not stop the investigation.
text: eyewitnesses make an identification, police often stop investigating other leads and instead look for further evidence that implicates the chosen suspect -The goal of finding the truth is neglected, often unintentionally, in a rush to solve the crime -Example of *confirmation
text: "Eyewitnesses should be told explicitly that the perpetrator might not be in the lineup or photospread and therefore eyewitnesses should not feel that they must make an identification.
text: Eyewitnesses should be told explicitly that the person in question might not be in the lineup or photospread and therefore should not feel that they must make identification.
text: Eyewitnesses are often asked to describe that perpetrator to law enforcement and later to make identifications from books of mug shots or lineups.
text: Each year as many as 80,000 eyewitnesses make identifications in criminal investigations.