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The Utah Supreme Court claims to be reluctant to overtrun a jury's verdict, then it does so without the slightest hesitation. This is what comes of governors refusing to appoint justices who actually practiced criminal law themselves.
Questioning the validity of eyewitness accounts as a wholesale strategy to overturning a conviction strikes me as a material change to the way we conduct trial justice. If we are going to allow psychologists and philosophers to dismantle eyewitness accounts then we're going to lay waste the best offense to a good defense.
Does it really take a high-paid expert witness to remind us of the human condition?
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