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Have the Eyes Had It?

View the article here See this article as well 03/14/2009 By Dahlia Lithwick Is our eyewitness identification system sending innocents to jail? "We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison." - Marcel Proust Describe the last person who served you a coffee. What if I helped refresh your memory? Showed you some photos of local baristas? Pulled together a helpful lineup? Cheered exuberantly when you picked the "right" one? Now imagine that instead of identifying the person who made your venti latte last week, we had just worked together to nail a robber or a rapist. Imagine how good we would feel...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).