Eyewitness Misidentification Cases

Imagine your life was held in some else's hands. Them having the ability to throw it away in a cell, or let it be free and grow. You sitting across the room, knowing you did nothing wrong. How confident would you be they would make the right choice. Seventy percent of them would make the wrong choice. Seventy percent of all witness have been proven wrong by DNA evidence (Bonaguidi). Witness are a major flaw in our social justice system, they are unreliable because to many variables that can change the witnesses choice, but there is solutions.

The main problem in Andre Hatchett's case was the faulty witness Jerry Williams. " A faulty witnesses and misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing, playing a role in more …show more content…
A good example of this is the case of Robert Cotton. Cotton was convicted on the charges of rape. He was identified by Jennifer Thompson. She testified in court that she was 100% sure that Cotton was her attacker. Cotton spent 54 years in jail. It was later found through DNA evidence that the attacker was Bobby Poole. The human brain has a way of changing memories. Even if the person is 100% sure, the brain can change its memories. " The human memory tends to reconstruct incidents because humans do not have the capability to record memories like a video recorder." (Bonaguidi). Another cause of eyewitness identification is the