Doug64 wrote:Not the state constitutions, the US Constitution. But beyond that, I can't disagree, the judges that threw out lawsuits on account of a lack of timeliness had a decent point. That doesn't change the fact that the judges and state authorities that altered or ignored the laws passed by the state legislatures had no right to overrule the Constitution.
Even less.
What part of the US constitution do you think it was breached?
Are you arguing that our court systems should ban eyewitness testimony?
Not at all, just needs to be interpreted with the understanding that bias exists, liars exists, crazy people exists, people can misinterpret their experiences, etc.
Eye witness testimony has been shown to be unreliable.
Take for instance this election fraud. It is not that they are all claiming and agreeing on 1 specific method of fraud, they are all claiming wildly different methods: Dead people voting, fake ballots, burning Trump's ballots, Shredding Trump's Ballots, Electronic voter fraud with machines changing votes, not counting Trump's ballots, counting trump ballots for Biden, Illegal aliens votings, etc. etc. etc. Furthermore, there is no proof of all that shit. Certainly not to the scale depicted and when there is 1 or 2 cases, they are often in favor of republicans.
Now... imagine that there are 100 eye witness testimony that I killed john, a few says that I stabbed john, others that I used a flame thrower, others that I poisoned him, a few more that I used a machine gun, others that I decapitated john, others that I drawned him and yet another few that I hanged him... Meanwhile the colonel states john seems to have passed away from a brain aneurysm... What kind of jury do you think is going to convict me based on the eyewitness testimony of those 100 people that "saw me" kill John?
Eyewitness testimoney can function as ancilliary, to put things into perspective and perhaps shape other existing evidence. It rarely if ever should be used as the sole source of evidence, certainly not for the claim of the largest crime in history.