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Eye Witness Identification

Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 9:45 p.m.

Can you believe your own eyes? Can you trust your own memory? Why is it that so many social scientists and so many in the police and the judiciary are so very concerned about eye-witness testimony. Mike Williams talks to an attorney at the Innocence Project in New York, a retired judge, a professor of psychology and a memory expert in an attempt to find out why we try \u2013 and often fail \u2013 to accurately recall a face or an event.

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