According to the National Registry of Exonerations, researchers found that 149 people were cleared in 2015 for crimes they didn’t commit which is more than any other year in history. More than two thirds of the people that were wrongly convicted for homicide were minorities. Many of these people’s fates are in the hands of witnesses, judges, and juries. This is why it is crucial to make sure that details are not distorted in order to make sure that the right people are put away for the crimes that are committed. For the past two decades, research has shown that witnesses are in fact vulnerable to memory distortion, confidence inflation, and more. The Post Identification Feedback effect was originally demonstrated by Wells and Bradfield (1998)
