Hosch Flashcards
what subsection is hosch apart of?
persuading a jury
what other studies are apart of this subsection?
Pennington pickle hosch
what did hosch look into?
the effect of the expert witness on jury perception of eyewitness
what background points can be used?
juries place a lot of value on ewt
expert witnesses can be bought in to argue the unreliability and to not place an etire decision on it.
what is the aim of the study?
to determine the influence of expert testimony regarding the general unreliability of eyewitnesses
what was the procedure?
a two- phase study
what happened in the phase 1 ?
a burglary case was tried. two juries heard all the evidence including expert testimony of a psychologist , the other two heard all testimony except that of psychologist
who were the participants of the phase 1?
24 community residents served at four six person juries
who was the psychologist?
was a defence expert talking about the potential unreliability of eye witness memory
who were the participants in phase 2 ?
24 student jurors consisting of four 6 person jurors
what happened in the second phase?
juries saw a videotape of the trial , two juries saw the entire proceeding from the first phase including expert
remaining two saw all but the expert
what were the findings ?
all juries acquitted the defendant
what was the difference between those who had heard the witness and those who didn’t ?
those who heard the expert testimony significantly lowered their judgements of the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness identification as well as its importance to the trial
was their a difference between participants?
nope , no difference was obtained
what was a second difference between juries ?
those juries who heard expert witness spent longer time discussing evidence
