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Forum: Old Message Board
Thread (Discussion): "no" means "no"...or maybe "more wine?"
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Message 118173 (In Reply to Message 118164)
Re: "no" means "no"...or maybe "more wine?"
Posted by x_orolan
on Oct 13, 2003 07:13 PM | Also by x_orolan
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No "hard" data at the moment, but I'll give you some food for thought while I track some down.
"But this type of evidence is commonplace in all sorts of cases. The spread of DNA analysis has exonerated many convicted rapists who had been wrongly identified by victims. Of 108 post-conviction exonerations by DNA identified by the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, some 97 involved sexual-assault and rape charges, and most of these convictions hinged on faulty eyewitness testimony."
"What makes eyewitness identifications especially mischievous is that they are not only often inaccurate, but usually they can be quite convincing to juries, regardless of their veracity. One of the most powerful forms of evidence a prosecutor can deploy is a person who was at the scene of the crime, who will point to the defendant in court and say, "That's the man who did it." Juries often believe such witnesses even when loud alarm bells are warning them away. After a woman was raped in her New Jersey apartment in 1992, the victim couldn't find her assailant in police photos. But eight months later, she saw McKinley Cromedy on the street and implicated him--even though she had passed him over in the original photo lineup. Fingerprints from her apartment didn't match his; neither did hairs or blood samples recovered by police. He was convicted anyway and sentenced to 60 years in prison, five of which he served before a DNA analysis cleared him."
"Robert Nasuti was convicted in Dover on the testimony of a 13-year-old who claimed she remembered this man assaulting her while babysitting when she was three years old. This master sergeant in the U.S. Army and father of three was convicted in spite of the fact the girl's own parents testified he could not have been babysitting as he was working the same shift at the same factory as them."(OK, not a rape case. But the theory is the same)
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Message 118164
Re: "no" means "no"...or maybe "more wine?"
Posted by x_marta
on Oct 13, 2003 04:36 PM | Also by x_marta
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118093, x_simon, Oct 12, 2003 03:58 PM ["no" means "no"...or maybe &qu...]
118098, x_SurvivorForeve, Oct 13, 2003 02:19 AM [Re: "no" means "no&quo...]
118125, x_HPierce, Oct 13, 2003 08:25 AM [well considering.]
118150, x_marta, Oct 13, 2003 11:08 AM [Re: well considering.]
118138, x_orolan, Oct 13, 2003 10:14 AM [Re: "no" means "no"...or ...]
118164, x_marta, Oct 13, 2003 04:36 PM [Re: "no" means "no"...o...]
118173, x_orolan, Oct 13, 2003 07:13 PM [Re: "no" means "no"...]
118192, x_marta, Oct 13, 2003 10:13 PM [Re: "no" means "no&quo...]
118216, x_orolan, Oct 14, 2003 12:12 PM [Re: "no" means "no...]
118236, x_marta, Oct 14, 2003 04:00 PM [Re: "no" means "...]
118247, x_orolan, Oct 14, 2003 07:31 PM [Re: "no" means &...]
118252, x_marta, Oct 14, 2003 08:41 PM [Re: "no" means...]
118265, x_losttime, Oct 15, 2003 05:11 AM [Re: "no"...]
118267, x_marta, Oct 15, 2003 09:36 AM [Re: "no"...]
118303, x_losttime, Oct 16, 2003 01:53 AM [Re: "no...]
118316, x_marta, Oct 16, 2003 07:45 PM [Re: "n...]
118320, x_losttime, Oct 17, 2003 01:09 AM [Re: &...]
118334, x_marta, Oct 17, 2003 08:06 PM [Re: &...]
118312, x_orolan, Oct 16, 2003 12:33 PM [Re: "no" m...]
118317, x_marta, Oct 16, 2003 07:48 PM [Re: "no"...]
118325, x_orolan, Oct 17, 2003 11:35 AM [Re: "no&q...]
118335, x_marta, Oct 17, 2003 08:19 PM [Re: "n...]
118339, x_orolan, Oct 17, 2003 09:45 PM [Re: &qu...]
118347, x_marta, Oct 19, 2003 04:57 AM [Re:]
118351, x_orolan, Oct 19, 2003 06:56 PM [Re:]
118358, x_marta, Oct 20, 2003 01:01 PM [Re...]
118361, x_orolan, Oct 20, 2003 02:31 PM [...]
118365, x_marta, Oct 20, 2003 06:13 PM [...]
146015, Rejected
118188, x_losttime, Oct 13, 2003 08:29 PM [Re: "no" means "no&quo...]
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