According to Cochran and Colleagues (2016),why Might Leading Questions for Eyewitnesses

question 31

Multiple Choice

According to Cochran and colleagues (2016) ,why might leading questions for eyewitnesses possibly affect their reliability?

• A)Witnesses are likely to incorporate information from questions into their subsequent recountings,even if the questions contained misleading or inaccurate information.
• B)Witnesses are unable to respond to questions after a traumatic event such as witnessing a crime.
• C)Police officers tend to ask questions that are unrelated to the crime itself.
• D)Witnesses tend to lie after they have been asked to recount their version of events for a crime.

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