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Did you know 75% of cases that were overturned through DNA testing, were because of "eye witnesses" error.

Eyewitness Misidentification

Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing. 

While eyewitness testimony can be persuasive evidence before a judge or jury, 30 years of strong social science research has proven that eyewitness identification is often unreliable. Research shows that the human mind is not like a tape recorder; we neither record events exactly as we see them, nor recall them like a tape that has been rewound. Instead, witness memory is like any other evidence at a crime scene; it must be preserved carefully and retrieved methodically, or it can be contaminated.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Eyewitness-Misidentification.php




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Re: 13 Years Rotting in Jail...
By: Decomposed
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Thu, 22 Sep 11 11:16 PM
Msg. 34006 of 65535

re: "It was late & dark out, many distances would have made it impossible to make a positive identification even in daylight."

See? Again, you are challenging the TRIAL. Not the punishment. You're bobbing and weaving, clo.

Is it the trial, or the punishment you disagree with?

Are you arguing now that convictions should not be based on what eye witnesses have to say?


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