CHP 9

Question 1

In melendez diaz v mass 2009 SCOTUS decided that the sixth amendment guarantees defendants what right

Answer 1

the right to cross examine forensic lab techs

Question 2

what is the term for an identification procedure in which a witness happens to see the defendant in custody say outside the courtroom or in the police station

Answer 2

an accidental show up

Question 3

in district attorney’s office for the third judicial district v osborne 2009 SCOTUS involved prisoner osbornes post conviction request to compel officials to release biological evidence so it could be submitted to DNA testing. what was the finding in the court

Answer 3

there is no right under the U.S constitution of access to forensic evidence

Question 4

what SCOTUS case introduced due process rights into determining the admissibility of evidence derived from a pretrial show up before indictment

Answer 4

Stovall v Denno

Question 5

in U.S v. Wade 1967 law enforcement was found to have violated the defendants sixth amendments rights in what respect

Answer 5

the defendant was placed in a lineup after being indicted without counsel present

Question 6

in perry v. new hampshire 2012 SCOTUS ruled that

Answer 6

the due process clause does not require a hearing into the reliability of eyewitness identification procedures that were not arranged by the police

Question 7

researchers have demonstrated that being of another race when identifying strangers

Answer 7

substantially increases the risk of mistaken identification

Question 8

what occurs when eyewitnesses are shown persons or objects and asked whether they are involved in a crime

Answer 8

recognition

Question 9

over time memory

Answer 9

fades but witnesses develop greater confidence about their recall ability

Question 10

what term refers to the perception of an event when information is first entered into a person’s memory

Answer 10

acquisition

Question 11

the participants in most police lineups consist mainly of

Answer 11

inmates from the local jailw

Question 12

which of the following is not one of the recommendations for improving police lineups

Answer 12

present the suspect and the fillers simultaneously

Question 13

research shows that jurors

Answer 13

tend to overestimate the accuracy of a witnesses lineup identification

Question 14

suggestive line ups

Answer 14

do not lead to automatic exclusion of the resulting identification

Question 15

researchers recommend that officials

Answer 15

present members of a lineup to the witness one at a time

Question 16

what type of lineup reduces the power of suggestion and increases the possibility that the witness will pick the person who most resembles the perpetrator

Answer 16

sequential

Question 17

what type of judgement occurs when a witness selects the person in a lineup who looks most like the culprit, beleiving the offender has to be in the lineup

Answer 17

suggestible

Question 18

identification of a single suspect by a witness is called

Answer 18

a show up

Question 19

scientists agree that DNA technology can

Answer 19

distinguish between any two individuals other than identical twins

Question 20

to exclude identification evidence on due process grounds, defendants have to prove (by a preponderance of the evidence) that the totality of the circumstances shows the identification procedure to have been unnecessarily suggestive and that this unnecessarily suggestive procedure created

Answer 20

a very substanital likelihood of misidentification

Question 21

the case of manson v. braithwaite 1977 addressed issues related to what type of eyewitness identification

Answer 21

show ups

Question 22

which of the following is not one of the five factors in the totality of circumstances that should weigh heavily in determining whether the lineup or show up procedure created a likelihood of misidentiifcation

Answer 22

witness age at time of crime

Question 23

in manson v. braithwaite 1977 SCOTUS endorsed which method for determining the admissibility of witness idnentification

Answer 23

the totality of the circumstances approach

Question 24

research indicates that 50 percent of defendants exonerated by DNA have cases involving mistaken eyewitness identification

Answer 24

false

Question 25

suggestion is particularly powerful during retention phase of memory

Answer 25

true