Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Eyewitness Identification, Eyewitness Memory, Polygraph

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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16 year old barbara stoppel found strangled in doughnut shop where she worked. Witnesses saw tall lanky man at shop at time of murder. Description was of thomas sophonow ended up being charged with murder (1982): hung jury: jury members unable to reach a verdict. Tried 2nd time in 1983 guilty of 2nd degree murder appealed deliberation. Tried 3rd time in 1985 problematic juror removed found guilty again: appealed again however set free as court decided he should not be tried again (however not declared innocent). Case reopened in 1998 and dna confirmed sophonow was not the killer: 18 years later, accepted apologies from police for crime he did not commit, awarded . 6 million in compensation. Civil law: one party (plaintiff) bring complaint against another (defendant) for violating the former"s rights in some way. All these steps in the legal system intensely social psychological. Jurors tend to overestimate the accuracy of eyewitnesses (confirmed from recent study at the.