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These include the behavior of eyewitnesses under the removal-without-replacement procedure, the effects of warnings that the actual culprit might not be in the lineup, the effects of manipulations to relative similarity, patterns of eyewitness responses using the dual lineup procedure, and the performance of eyewitnesses using the sequential presentation procedure.
Warning eyewitnesses that the actual culprit might not be in the lineup or photospread is thereby essential to prevent the eyewitnesses from assuming that the police have the actual culprit and that their task merely is to find the suspect among the members of the lineup or photospread.
The psychological processes involved in eyewitness identifications from lineups and photospreads, especially the relative judgment process, require that eyewitnesses be warned that the actual culprit might not be in the lineup and that all members of the lineup fit the verbal description that the eyewitness had given of the perpetrator.
In cases in which eyewitness testimony is used, more often than not, an expert will not be allowed to testify to the faults of eyewitness identification.
Although these two cases are dramatic (but true) examples of the mistaken eyewitness identifications that are recorded in the annals of criminal law, they surely indicate that eyewitness identification is a serious and historical problem.
Even with the obscene number of documented wrongful convictions that were based on the testimony of mistaken eyewitness, as well as a number of studies that frankly identify the unreliability of eyewitness identifications -- eyewitnesses identification seems to have found a warm, cozy long-lasting place of residence in our courtrooms.
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