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Recent scientific breakthroughs in understanding eyewitness memory provide new information. This information should lead to a review of past convictions. It also helps explain how eyewitness testimony, even when wrong, can be very convincing and change how jurors view other evidence.
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Recent scientific breakthroughs in understanding eyewitness memory provide new information. This information should be used to review past convictions. It helps explain how eyewitness testimony, even when wrong, can be very convincing and make jurors misunderstand other evidence.
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Recent scientific discoveries about how eyewitness memory works are important new evidence. These findings show how eyewitness accounts, even when wrong, can strongly influence juries. This influence can then change how jurors look at all other evidence presented in a case.
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Scientists have learned new things about how people remember what they see. This new information can help review old court cases. It helps explain how someone can be sure they saw something, but still be wrong. This wrong but convincing story can make jurors think differently about all the other facts in a case.