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Originally Posted by kane
This doesn't surprise me. I watched documentary a while back about innocent people convicted of major crimes. There have been some studies done that show as many as 85% of the people who witness a crime get at least some of the facts about what they saw wrong.
There are a lot of reasons for it, but in that study they showed multiple women who were raped and got a very good look at the rapists face could not pick the guy out of a lineup and people who saw a crime occur often got major details of what happened wrong. It was pretty interesting and scary.
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There have been multiple studies done over the years about eyewitness testimony and it has been proven to be unreliable and no one should be convicted based primarily upon eyewitness testimony...but they have been and still are. Basically if four people witness an event you will get four different accounts that are sometimes far different from one account to the other...and some times not one single thing will match from one account to another.