Witness Summary This is the witness statement of Jason Rolling’s born March, 28th, 1992. In regards to the armed robbery, and shooting that took place at the Esso gas station, located at 441, Main Street, Lethbridge, Alberta. At around 3 pm Jim was waiting for his replacement Jim Connors to replace him. Jason’s girlfriend Jen pulled up on the south side of the Esso, to pick Jason up after his shift. Once she arrived Jason went back into the building, and started to cash out his register. As he was doing this he noticed a dark truck, which he described as a GM model, pull up to the pump located closest to the Esso’s main door. A man got out of the truck, and then entered the building. Upon entering the man pulled out a handgun. The gunman
The essay Paralyzed Witnesses: The Murder They Heard was written by Stanley Milgram and Paul Hollander. In this essay, the authors describe in detail the responses of the witnesses during the murder of Kitty Genovese and the impact this case has of the ability for an individual to help people during a time of distress. The main idea of this essay was to analyze the reasons why the witnesses did not help during the murder. The internal and external conflicts were the main factors that influenced the witnesses did not help Genovese during her time of need.
On May 22, 1990 two Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies were responding to a call to break up a fight. While returning to their cars one of the officers, Murray Stapp noticed a motorcycle moving at rather high speeds. The motorcycle was being operated by 18-year-old Brian Willard and carrying a 16-year-old passenger by the name of Phillip Lewis. Neither the operator nor the passenger of the motorcycle had anything to do with the fight being responded to.
At about 1940 HRS I arrived at Deputy Melchers location and made contact with Deputy Melcher and Gary Jacobs the Reporting Person/ Victim. As I pulled onto the property, which was on the west side of the road, I observed a large tin building, with a walk-in door and a large over head door facing to the East. The large overhead door was open and inside I could see several automobiles.
As the attacks became more gruesome, pressure started to rise for the Phoenix police department. The Phoenix police put up multiple different billboards across the area, “showing a sketch of a dark-skinned man with a mustache, wearing a fisherman’s hat. A team of veteran detectives assembled a special taskforce, spending thousands of hours patrolling in an effort to capture this elusive killer. On July 14, 2006, a tip was received on the Phoenix police’s Silent Witness hotline referring Mark Goudeau. Suggesting that he resembled one of the sketches of the suspect.”(Hogan, Shanna) It was the first time Mark Goudeau’s name had ever popped up in the investigation. When Mark turned twenty-four, he met Wendy Carr at a Phoenix nightclub. They started to become serious, and ended up moving in together. All of the charges were disturbing. Goudeau was accused of beating a woman with a shotgun, and later seen chasing the two witnesses at the scene. Goudeau claimed he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, it was incidental and did not commit the assault. It was his first serious offense and hoped to receive probation at the worst. A year later he was arrested again on charges for robbing a grocery store at gunpoint
This traumatic event caused the mother to investigate in order to find her daughter's attacker. She believed that she vividly recalled the attackers features, these features being “6’0″, 170 lbs., slim build, 19 years of age with sandy brown, wavy hair, wearing a black leather jacket
When they handcuffed and brought him to the conference room, he raced off from four police offers and leaped through a glass window. Witnesses of the event say that he had fallen headfirst and broke several bones when he hit the sidewalk. Investigators of criminal law are looking at how the man got a gun past courthouse security.
The officers used explosives to get into the hotel room. Although, before the police and SWAT got into his room be shot and killed himself. They recovered a total of 42 guns belonging to Stephen. 23 of the weapons were found in his hotel room. The rest of the 19 firearms were found at his home in Mesquite. Authorities also found explosives and several thousand rounds of ammo. The shooter brought the firearms in the hotel room himself and broke the window
On August 2, 2009 around 2:30 p.m., David Riley, an alleged member of the Lincoln Park gang, was parked in a San Diego neighborhood with his girlfriend and three other men. When a member of a rival gang, Mr. Webster, drove through the nearby intersection, the three men near Riley’s car fired multiple shots into Mr. Webster’s car. After Mr. Webster’s car crashed, the three nearby shooters got into Riley’s car, an Oldsmobile, and drove away. Eyewitnesses to the shooting claimed that Riley could have been one of the shooters but declined to give a definitive positive identification of Riley as one of the shooters. Police found Riley’s Oldsmobile in a known Lincoln Park gang area the next day almost completely hidden.
There has been considerable debate worldwide, regarding the accuracy of eyewitness testimony in the criminal justice system. Particularly, arguments have surrounded wrongful convictions that have resulted from incorrect eyewitness evidence (Areh, 2011; Howitt, 2012; Nelson, Laney, Bowman-Fowler, Knowles, Davis & Loftus, 2011). The purpose of this essay is to consider psychological research about the accuracy of eyewitness testimony and its placement in the criminal justice system. Firstly, this essay will define how eyewitnesses and their testimonies are used within the criminal justice system and the current debate surrounding its usage. Secondly, the impact of post-identification feedback will be used to show the affect on the confidence of a witness. Thirdly, studies around gender related differences will show how a witnesses gender can affect memory recall and accuracy. Fourthly, empirical studies will be used to highlight how a psychological experience called change blindness can cause mistakes in eyewitness identification. Finally, the effect of cross-examination will be used to explore the impact on eyewitness accuracy. It will be argued, that eyewitness testimony is not accurate and highly subjective, therefore, the criminal justice system must reduce the impact that eyewitness testimony is allowed to have. Developing better policies and procedures to avoid wrongful convictions by misled judges and jury members can do this.
That night, many witnesses reported having seen a man changing the tire of his van and waving any possible help away angrily while others reported seeing a woman wandering around the side of the dangerous highway. More witnesses reported that Kenneth and his wife were having many violent disputes at their home that usually resulted in Kenneth pursuing an angry Yvonne around the block. The most compelling evidence against Mathison, however, is purely scientific. Detective Paul Ferreira first noticed that the extensive blood stains inside the Mathison van. After hearing Mathison’s original account, he summoned the assistance of famed forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee to analyze what he thought was inconsistent evidence. Blood stains on the paneling and the spare tire in the cargo area reveal low-velocity blood stains meaning that the blood probably dripped from Yvonne’s head onto the floor. The stains found on the roof and steering wheel were contact transfer patterns probably caused by Mathison’s bloody hands. Blood stains on the driver’s side of the van were contact-dripping patterns which indicate that Mathison touched the inside of the van multiple times before and after moving his wife’s body. The final groups of blood stains on the instrument panel of the van were medium-velocity stains which show investigators that Mathison probably struck his wife at least once in the front seat causing the blood to fly from her open head wound. The enormous amounts of blood inside the van lead prosecutor Kurt Spohn to investigate the Mathison case as a murder instead of a misdemeanor traffic violation.
Debated as one of the most misrepresented cases in American legal history, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald still fights for innocence. Contrary to infallible evidence, prosecution intentionally withheld crucial information aiding MacDonald’s alibi. Such ratification included proof of an outside attack that would have played a major role in Jeffrey’s case.
Why I chose the topic Johnny Reeves is the best witness because he has seen and experienced the most in this story. I picked this because Johnny has been in the Klan, experienced life out of the Klan, and has been persecuted by the Klan. In my mind this makes him the best witness because he has both been persecuted people as a part of the Klan, and has been persecuted by the Klan.
... found next to the car. He had been shot at close range in the head, but was still breathing. He died while in route to the hospital.
The cops surrounded the building and tensions rose. The younger of the two boys started to get anxious and shot a table. The younger boy freaked out and shot a table. The cashier, threw up and the little girl started crying. Zach, who had been supposed to take his medication h...