Witness for the Defense

The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Evidence, Criminal law
Cover of the book Witness for the Defense by Katherine Ketcham, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, St. Martin's Press
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Author: Katherine Ketcham, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus ISBN: 9781250086310
Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication: June 2, 2015
Imprint: St. Martin's Press Language: English
Author: Katherine Ketcham, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
ISBN: 9781250086310
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication: June 2, 2015
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Language: English

"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police officer, will the manner of questioning alter the representation of the memory? Can memories be supplemented with additional, false information?"

The "passion" Loftus describes in the lines above led her to a teaching career at the University of Washington and, perhaps more importantly, into hundreds of courtrooms as an expert witness on the fallibility of eyewitness accounts. As she has explained in numerous trials, and as she convincingly argues in this absorbing book, eyewitness accounts can be and often are so distorted that they no longer resemble the truth.

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"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police officer, will the manner of questioning alter the representation of the memory? Can memories be supplemented with additional, false information?"

The "passion" Loftus describes in the lines above led her to a teaching career at the University of Washington and, perhaps more importantly, into hundreds of courtrooms as an expert witness on the fallibility of eyewitness accounts. As she has explained in numerous trials, and as she convincingly argues in this absorbing book, eyewitness accounts can be and often are so distorted that they no longer resemble the truth.

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