In Antonio Beaver, I think his wrongful conviction was most common in that time of period. This is the same as Ronald Cotton whom also was convicted and sentenced for a case of raping a white woman. One of the factors of mismatching the perpetrator is the memory. Memory is not always recalling everything that passed our eyes. Cross-racial identification bias is that people tend to apply more lenient criteria of a different race or ethnicity. In the book, the said that the higher rate of false positive identification are mostly Caucasian eyewitness identifies an African American suspect. What if the suspect had no color? Would the eyewitness still going to pick that person? Stress and weapon effect can cause the memory to not function appropriate.
