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To: epicure who wrote (57878)	9/13/2002 8:22:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) of 82486

Almost any competent sociology teacher has run such an incident in their classroom. But it still astonishes me when two completely independent witnesses with nothing at stake testify about an incident they both witnessed in completely incompatible terms. Did the tall man strike the first blow, or the short man? They agree that one of them had a knife, but they disagree on which one. Etc. In domestic violence cases you naturally expect the parties to have quite different versions of the same incident. But in the limited criminal work I have done, where you have multiple independent witnesses, it's a surprise. I had a case once involving a barroom fight observed by twelve people that we could identify (there were a lot more there than that, but they got away before they could be identified and denied being there) everybody agreed that only two men were involved in the fight, but when the police interviewed the witnesses right after the incident the twelve didn't agree on which two people, there was no person that all twelve agreed was involved, and a total of five people were named as the combatants. Very weird.

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