Why Have So Many People Been Convicted of Crimes They

question 13

Multiple Choice

Why have so many people been convicted of crimes they didn't commit based on eyewitness identification?

• A) No one has ever been convicted of a crime based on faulty eyewitness identification.
• B) Eyewitnesses are often paid off by the prosecution or threatened by police to help gain a conviction.
• C) Eyewitnesses can overlook facial features of people of different races, transfer memories of people from different settings, or have poor recall due to stress.
• D) Judges allow prosecutors to find people with a grudge against a defendant to serve as eyewitnesses.

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