The article was entitled "Police Massacre in San Blas," and it re-creates, through eyewitness testimony, the examination of forensic and ballistic reports, and private social-media postings by police who were present, the events of March 26th of this year, when eight alleged members of the gang Mara Salvatrucha were killed at a coffee plantation.
David L. Mayer, who led the board's examination of eyewitness accounts, said that most of the witnesses were too far away to see the initial explosion of the jet's center fuel tank.
The wreckage was too severely fragmented to determine the exact position of the rudders, elevators, flaps, and slats prior to impact and examination of eyewitness photographs showed only that the right wing flaps were fully extended as the crew tried unsuccessfully to correct the steep roll they were in.
Like Thucydides, Polybius relied on personal experience and the cross-examination of eyewitnesses.
Closer examination showed that only six of those eyewitnesses had actually seen the real thing.
There's significant controversy on this point, as there were no eyewitnesses, but the UT researchers have a detailed theory based on close examination of the bones and their 3D models.
An examination of the best knowledge of movements of troops, as well as eyewitness accounts of outgoing fire, indicate that the rockets may have been fired from one of several Ukrainian positions to the southwest of the hit sites, including the village of Novomykhailivka that was cited in the HRW report.
"You can ask the judge to tell the jury, 'Be careful; eyewitness testimony is often unreliable.' You can point that out in cross-examination".
In terrorism cases it is very difficult to establish the motive, to find the eyewitnesses, to complete the cross-examination, etc.
There was eyewitness evidence.
