Eye Witness Testimony

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…principles involved in and factors influencing eyewitness testimony. Without this testimony, the jurors remain unaware that their focus should be on how and why the criminal was obtained rather than the fact that he/she was. When eyewitnesses to actual crimes make mistakes, the results are devastating. In more than a thousand cases in which innocent people were convicted of crimes, errors made by eyewitnesses were the single most decisive element to false conviction (Loftus 12).