‘The witness is lying!’: the impact of a defendant countering a jailhouse informant’s testimony

The present study investigated the impact of a defendant explicitly countering the claim of a jailhouse informant that the defendant confessed to a murder. Jury-eligible community members (N = 127) recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk read (via Qualtrics) a fictional trial summary in which a defe...

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Main Author: Wetmore, Stacy A. (Author)
Contributors: Golding, Jonathan M. ; Tucker, Allison L. ; Neuschatz, Jeffrey S.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2023, Volume: 29, Issue: 10, Pages: 1107-1125
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Jailhouse informant
Law
Murder
defendant