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I will never forget that face?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights (From public domain.) An armed robber bursts into the local bank with guns drawn. As a bank customer, do you stare at the robber's face to be able to describe the perpetrator to the police in the minutest detail, or do you try to protect yourself and those around you?  Unfortunately, countless innocent people are wrongfully convicted on the testimony of an eyewitness saying "I will never forget that face" when the witness never had a chance to process the image of the suspect's face and other features in the first place, when the visual and sound observation totaled only seconds at best, and when the witness's first priority was to emerge safely, rather than to be a photographic-memory witness. We already know through DNA evidence how often people are wrongfully convicted...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 08, 2008 (boomark / email).