Unreliability in Eyewitness Testimonies

One evening in May 1975, two men robbed a store manager. The robbers had wanted the manager to open the store safe, but he convinced the armed men that he did not know the combination. Instead, he gave them his own money to satisfy them. After they had left, the manager called the police and gave them the make of the robber’s car. Later, Lonnie and Sandy Sawyer, two brothers, were arrested because they were …

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