{"id":21702,"date":"2012-10-11T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=21702"},"modified":"2015-07-21T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T20:30:23","slug":"why-i-dont-trust-eyewitness-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/why-i-dont-trust-eyewitness-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don’t Trust Eyewitness Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a criminal defense paralegal for 22 years and learned to trust circumstantial evidence over eyewitness testimony because people don’t always see what they think they see. \u00a0This morning I was 30 minutes into a telephone reading<\/a> when I saw a car pull into my driveway. \u00a0I did not recognize the small beige sedan, so I excused myself to see who it was. \u00a0Jeremy got to the door before me, and it was a friend of \u00a0his. \u00a0I told him I hadn’t recognized the small car, I had only seen his friend’s truck. \u00a0Jeremy said it was his truck. \u00a0Not the car I swear that I saw?? \u00a0Nope. \u00a0I was surprised, because my first thought was the only one who shows up this early is this one person. \u00a0Since I identified the vehicle as a small sedan and not the truck I expected to see, I didn’t recognize it. \u00a0So what happened? \u00a0Granted, I was 30 minutes into a psychic reading and maybe not as grounded as I could have been to see what was in the 3-d around me. \u00a0But it’s things like that that remind me, we don’t always see things as they are.<\/p>\n

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