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   From: klausschadenfreude@null.net   
      
   On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:16:14 +0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   >Klaus Schadenfreude   wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >>Allegations DISMISSED.   
   >   
   >Not by the *Republican* Speaker of the House.   
      
   You've mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck about the *Republican*   
   speaker of the house.   
      
   The FACT is that "eye witness" accounts from almost 40 years ago are   
   worthless.   
      
   One factor that can influence eyewitness accuracy is the simple   
   passage of time. Memory does not diminish at a uniform rate.   
   Rather, we forget at a rapid rate immediately following an event, and   
   the rate of forgetting then diminishes over time. This is called the   
   "forgetting curve.""' Thus, even if an eyewitness testifies shortly   
   after an event, her memory may already be substantially diminished.   
   Furthermore, what happens in the time between the observation   
   and the recall of an event can influence, and even change, a person's   
   memory of it." Witnesses frequently encounter new information after   
   they experience an event. This information can come from other   
   witnesses, investigators, attorneys, or any number of other sources.   
   Post-event information can enhance or compromise a witness's   
   memory.  For example, suggesting a fact, such as the presence of a   
   stop sign at the scene of an accident, greatly increases a witness's   
   chances of remembering it, whether it was there or not.14   
   If witnesses encounter additional information that conflicts with   
   their memory of an event, and therefore cannot be easily assimilated   
   into the existing memory, they will compromise between the new   
   information and the information they remember, creating a new   
   memory.   Sometimes compromise is impossible, such as when a witness   
   sees a stop sign but is later told it was a yield sign. Witnesses will   
   then frequently "adjust" their memories to be consistent with the   
   subsequent information, rather than with what they originally   
   perceived.   
      
   BEYOND ADMISSIBILITY: A PRACTICAL LOOK AT THE USE OF EYEWITNESS   
   EXPERT TESTIMONY IN THE FEDERAL COURTS   
   JENNIFER L. OVERBECK   
      
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