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Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21
In practice, thousands of defendants are convicted on a daily basis entirely because of eye-witness testimony. Eye-witness testimony is really only questioned when the defense is trying to show mistaken identity.
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I understand that perfectly well, i'm just saying that scientificly, witnesses and memory tend to be very unreliable as far as accounting for how things actually were when there is a time gap between the event and the recounting (from many many psych experiments etc)...