eye witness testimony

• what is eye witness testimony?

  evidence provided by someone that has seen the crime or event occurring
• miscarriage of justice?

  failure of the justice system to attain the ends of the justice.

  • Huff (1987), 300/500 wrongful convictions were due to false EWT
• how do schemas influence our memory?

  reconstructed on bases on what we heard and saw at the time, which is based on previously existing information that is different to everyone