First Order Knowledge Claims:
“Kevin Brinkley’s murder conviction as a juvenile was nearly 40 years ago.”
“The conviction was based largely on the testimony of two eyewitnesses.”
“The fact that Brinkley’s conviction was based on what appears to be faulty eyewitness testimony is sadly, all too common.”
“Eyewitness misidentification is the single biggest contributor to wrongful convictions.”
“More than 70 percent of the convictions that have been overturned through DNA testing nationwide involved eyewitnesses who got it wrong, according to the Innocence Project.”
Second Order Knowledge Claims:
The fact that Brinkley’s murder conviction as a juvenile was nearly 40 years ago can be trusted because quantifiable data is thought to be accurate.
The fact that 70% of the overturned convictions through DNA testing involved faulty eyewitnesses can be trusted to be accurate because people have different DNA, which results in each person having a distinct composition of themselves.
The fact that having eyewitnesses view suspects one at a time would produce a more accurate judgement can be believed because the human mind tends to compare different suspects to each other, and thus distort the results.
Knowledge Question:
To what extent does emotion influence sense perception?
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