eyewitness
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This led to a deeper look into other factors contributing to wrongful convictions, including prosecutorial misconduct and mistaken eyewitness identifications, especially those made by witnesses with different racial backgrounds from the suspects.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
I’ve been an eyewitness to lost specimens turning up in a museum when a colleague spotted a dinosaur skull and pterosaur skeleton sitting on the wrong shelf like misplaced library books.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
He was also an eyewitness to the Great Plague of 1665, which took an estimated 100,000 lives, about a fourth of London’s population, in 18 months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Video captured by an eyewitness showed the moment the iceberg turned over, creating waves close to the coastal city.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Hurd claimed he wasn’t involved, but an eyewitness identified him as having been near the scene and he was convicted by a jury.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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Videos shared by eyewitnesses showed the bus badly damaged, as local residents rushed to help the injured children.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
But ICE has provided no proof, and in Araujo’s case, eyewitnesses say the agency is lying about what happened.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Speaking to local media, several eyewitnesses described the devastation as "like a bomb has fallen" on the municipality, while others recounted the fire's "unbelievably quick" spread.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Flock’s ability to identify vehicles without a plate propelled its growth, Weinstein said, because police value searching for other details eyewitnesses typically recall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“We’re eyewitnesses, right? I think we should try to solve the case ourselves!”
From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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