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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Scientific American: Are Eyewitnesses in the
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Scientific American: Are Eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman Trial Reliable?
http://j.mp/MPt2gSNewly (Scientific American)
"Newly released court documents in the second-degree-murder case
against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman reveal that, in
the month following his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26,
four key witnesses significantly changed their accounts of what they
saw and heard that night. The more recent versions of their memories
tend to be more damning of Zimmerman than their initial statements.
Which raises the question: How reliable are eyewitnesses?
...
That external input is what makes eyewitness testimony so unreliable.
Eyewitnesses are generally unaware that their memory has been altered
by post-event information, and feel convinced they're recalling only
the incident itself. "Once an eyewitness's memory of the crime has
been altered by post-event information, it is difficult or impossible
to restore the eyewitness's original memory of the crime,"
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