Discussed in the article are social science findings on eyewitness identification and presents the findings of an empirical study of appellate court decisions which involved cases within April 8, 2008, and April 8, 2009. As stated, constitutional challenges to eyewitness testimony have been rejected in 100% of cases, even when those challenges have proved to be useless in rummaging out erroneous …show more content…
Studies showed within the twelve-month period that there were 128 cases challenged, 31 were excluded and therefore leaving 96 for the author to analyze. There are various amounts of data regarding the relation to the number of cases and the percentage of the crime and weapon use in each case, in the data set. Weapons played a role in 65.7%, poor lighting was 43%, and the use of other estimator variables were included at about 11%, also shown is that 88% of the cases reviewed involved serious violent crimes. The likelihood of the identification in any of these cases to be reliable and accurate is very