(November 18, 2015 at 9:41 am)Rhythm Wrote: What happened to the reliability of eyewitness testimony? Don't tell me that you also, after all of this bullshit, defer to evidence over testimony....that would be silly.
I think it is reasonable, that given contrary evidence; that the stronger of the two should be followed. Don't you? In the case that you gave, the witness testimony wasn't that strong. In other instances, the forensic evidence may not be that strong. I'm not making a black and white rule, that you must always follow, regardless of the details. I think I am consistent here, and my position has been all along, that physical evidence does not necessarily rule out testimonial evidence or that only physical evident is permissible (which is what I'm opposing). When dealing with contrary evidence, then there necessarily has to be a mistake or fabrication somewhere.
