The speaker is a forensic psychologist, he used the example of the wrong
eyewitness testimony to explain this. One day in the dark night, a bullet from a moving car on the street killed a father. The suspect of the murder was found guilty
only by eyewitness testimony. However, the speaker understood that the
identification of the suspect’s face was impossible from analysis of the situation.
It was too dark to recognize human face. He proved this by scientific data and inspection
and the suspect was released.
By using this example, he suggested to
those working in criminal justice that they need more scientific background. He also pointed out that human memories are
unconsciously reconstituted memories and not be necessarily true. Therefore, we must not regard memory itself
as the truth all the time.
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