Imagine Yourself as a Juror in the Following Murder Case

Essay

Imagine yourself as a juror in the following murder case (from Loftus, 1993).The defendant is George Franklin, Sr., 51 years old, standing trial for a murder that occurred more than 20 years earlier.The victim was eight year-old Susan Kay Nason.Franklin's daughter, Eileen, only eight years old herself at the time of the murder, provided the major evidence against her father.Eileen's memory of the murder, however, had re-emerged only recently, after 20 years of being repressed.