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"John Keeney" wrote:

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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Michael Wise" wrote in message
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Do objective judges accept one guy's claim of having seen something as
something even approaching conclusive evidence?

To the best of my knowledge, yes. Why wouldn't they?

Because eyewitness testimony is not very reliable at all.

When I've sat jury duty the instructions were to take all testimony
at face value if there was an interpretation of events that allowed it.

That's nice, but the footnote to that is that most eyewitness testimony
is extremely easy to disallow.

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