Eyewitness Identification - Getting it Right

Read the Innocence Project's "Reevaluating Lineups" report on eyewitness misidentifications.

[Chrissy]

oh i love how theres a friendship at the end and how they work together!!

[CrazyBeautifulLife]

If someone lost me 11 years of my life, I wouldn't be quite so forgiving...

[MrDuckDrawz]

I feel so bad for both of him, she wasn't trying to ruin his life she just wanted justice for the horrible thing she went through, but its so unfair that he had to suffer even though he was innocent. Ronald is a great person for forgiving her and I'm glad they are able to make peace with one another

[ChemQueenWeinzel]

thank you for the video. very powerful. I use it every year in my high school forensics class.

[shaunbarrettmswlcswadastre]

This gave me a sick feeling, Look how they got cotton looking like a puppy at the end, after he spent 11 years of his life in prison (my opinion)

[carultch]

Can eye witnesses be punished for intentionally incorrectly identifying a suspect?

It is probably a very rare event where it is intentional. Eye witness testimony usually is wrong by accident, instead of intent, because the moment of a crime is a very confusing situation to people who see it happen. Plue there can be an altered mental state, due to trauma from the crime.

I'd imagine that intentional false testimony would probably be someone who is in cahoots with the perpetrator to begin with.

[laurielewis]

You think this is bad, look at the case Clarence Moses-Al. Convicted on a dream his non-victim had.

[rasheedacelestin]

did she even say he was black IN HER DARK ASS ROOM??? make this shit make sense all she knew was a male voice like wtf can you possibly see in a dark ass room. You would never see a criminal face like come tf on im so mad because I feel like they should've kept looking for the actual guy but then again I get it but she real life felt like she was under pressure cause they brought her 6 male pictures like no girl take your time and look at the damn pictures.

[ChristopherJames-ixyt]

They still believed her . Middle class white woman . Why did nt they challengeher. And call her a liar?