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Final Project: SamplingSherry Liezl CrowePSY302: Research Methods Instructor: Dr. Harbin Argosy UniversityAugust 27, 2014Research HypothesisThe common law, with its preference for oral evidence from witnesses, developed its own rules relating to them. This has generated literature in other disciplines relating to witnesses and their credibility and reliability in visual identification in particular. Two classes of witnesses are presently controversial: children in sexual assault cases and those claiming to have recovered lost memories of sexual assaults. Much of the literature conceals common-law rules about onus of proof, particularly in criminal trials. The prosecution must prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt while the defendant need only raise a reasonable doubt. This makes issues of witness reliability less significant for the prosecution than they are for the defendant.Final Project: SamplingEyewitness testimony is a reliable source of evidence in today’s judicial system: An Annotated BibliographyBentham, Jeremy, Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice, edited by Mill, John Stuart, 5 Vols., London: Hunt and Clarke, 1827; reprinted Littleton, Colorado: Rothman, 1995.BENTHAM saved some of his most caustic sarcasm for