Good post this week. You have brought to our attention that eyewitnesses giving incorrect information has lead to the conviction of innocent people. I had also found information that shows the problem with distance when seeing features of people that are pertinent to identification of a suspect. Although I believe that eyewitnesses are still valuable, it is understood that one might not be able to see particular features, such as eye lashes from even 10 feet away. It was also mentioned that from 200 feet you can’t see their eyes. And at 500 feet, a person’s head would be a blur (Stambor, 2006). If you have witnesses a crime from behind a counter at a gas station that is happening at one of the pumps, I don’t think you could clearly identify
