OBJECTION: YOU CAN’T TRUST OLD MEMORIES Jurors can evaluate witnesses to determine how well they “remember and describe what happened.”1 But how can a witness be trusted when their testimony occurs many years after an event took place? Remember that not all events leave the same impression on witnesses. Some events (such as Spencer’s phone call to Tammy’s husband) are more memorable than others. Jurors are told to consider the importance of a memory when evaluating the witness. In a similar way, the gospel accounts, even though they were written about Jesus many years after the fact, recall
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