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-Over the past decades false eyewitness identification has been the most prominent cause of false convictions. However due to the advances of technology, DNA testing has provided evidence, for many of these cases, that help prove their innocence.

- Inaccurate eyewitness identifications can confound investigations from the earliest stages. Critical time is lost while police are distracted from the real perpetrator, focusing instead on building the case against an innocent person.

-Research shows that the human mind is not like a tape recorder; we neither record events exactly as we see them, nor recall them like a tape that has been rewound. Instead, witness memory is like any other evidence at a crime scene; it must be preserved carefully and retrieved methodically, or it can be contaminated.