Eye-Witness Evidence
To those of us who have never had the experience of testifying in Court, it might seem a simple and straightforward matter to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That being an eye-witness is not so easy, and that things are not always what they seem, was the subject of the 4ZB Passing Parade feature, Re-consider your verdict, ‘Three actual cases were cited
in which accused men and women were found guilty of crimes which they did not commit, and in each case eys-wit-nesses positively identified the wrong people, In no case did there seem any question of deliberate false witness, as most of the evidence was given by chance bystanders who obviously had nothing to gain by false accusation, And yet these witnesses all took the oath and declared that without shadow of a doubt the innocent accused was the person they had seen commit the crime. In this programme, no moral was drawn, no warning offered, no reasons sought for the behaviour of the witnesses. Indeed, there seemed no conclusion except that they were, each and all of them, honestly mistaken. But listeners, after hearing this programme, might weil ponder on the question of. eye-witness evidence and its comparative value in a Court of law,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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214Eye-Witness Evidence New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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