Examples Of Eyewitness Errors

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This Article thoroughly investigates in great detail many methods that prosecutors should use in order to accurately analyze eyewitness testimonies. These methods will significantly enhance the ability of the criminal justice system and those within it to assess eyewitness accounts and the accuracy of the accounts that are given. These methods will help to reduce and hopefully eventually eliminate wrongful convictions throughout not only the US but throughout all of the world. One of these many methods goes as follows: First, you must come to a personal understanding about whether the law enforcement officers or officials at the scene conducted the eyewitness interviews …show more content…

The Article also thoroughly discusses the scientific steps taken for assessing the eyewitness interviews and identification procedures. Also it includes a list of factors during the crime that may have changed the eyewitness accuracy in criminal trials. By using this accurate and thorough method, the criminal justice system will hopefully reduce the amount of wrongful convictions from eyewitness error. The prevalence of eyewitness errors poses a major dilemma for the criminal justice system. Because in cases it's usually the only primary source of evidence that is available. We know of this because a study in 1987 there were 77,000 criminal cases that were based off of eyewitness testimonies each year in the united states. This was the primary sole evidence in almost all of them. Now know that many of these cases have been ruled faulty is making many people question how many people are innocently put into jail each year under false eyewitness statements. Now the criminal justice suit has been trying to find ways of making sure that people are not wrongfully convicted. They are starting with improving judges and improving attorneys. Ability to assess the accuracy of

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