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Weapon focus is the concentration on a weapon by a witness of a crime and the subsequent inability to accurately remember other details of the crime. [1] Weapon focus is a factor that heavily affects the reliability of eyewitness testimony .
When an eyewitness of a crime focuses their attention on a weapon, it reduces their attention to other details, and thus, diminishes the reliability of their memory of the incident. [24] The presence of a weapon impacts some details of the crime committed, such as what the assailant is wearing or other surrounding visual markers.
In eyewitness identification, in criminal law, evidence is received from a witness "who has actually seen an event and can so testify in court". [1]The Innocence Project states that "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."
The weapon focus effect suggests that the presence of a weapon narrows a person's attention, thus affects eyewitness memory. [25] A person focuses on the central detail (for example, the weapon) and loses focus on the peripheral details thus resulting in worse perpetrator recall. [ 26 ]
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An incognito witness (świadek incognito), also an anonymous witness (świadek anonimowy), is a witness who has been questioned in the course of criminal proceedings and whose circumstances allowing disclosure of his or her identity are not known to other participants in the proceedings, other than the prosecutor and the court, due to a well-founded fear of danger to the life, health, freedom ...
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