Re: [Phys-l] Memory and how it works

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

No, they bring in a PhD cognitive scientist.  And they will get exactly what
is in this article as testimony from an expert.  In the future any
prosecutor who uses the wrong method of identifying suspects such as lineups
or showing more than 1 photo at a time will have experts breathing down
their necks.

Actually many traditional methods of identifying suspects have not been
scientifically proven.  How reliable are fingerprints, or ballistics?
Lineups are actually not very reliable.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> Not with this article, before any self-repecting judge who would sustain
> a hearsay objection to such testimony.
>  			Regards,
>  				Jack
>
> "Trust me.  I have a lot of experience at this."
>  		General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
>  		just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley
>
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> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
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> > This is "in the news".  Defense attorneys now can contest eye witness
> > testimony scientifically.
> >
> > bc
> >
> > This is old:
> >
> > http://agora.stanford.edu/sjls/Issue%20One/fisher&tversky.htm
> >
> > IIRC, this is the subject of a current (or very recent) article in
> > the NYer.