Observations & Eyewitnesses

What does the Innocence Project use to exonerate falsely convicted individuals?

• DNA

• RNA

• DNA & RNA

• eyewitness testimony

Stress can enhance the brain's ability to construct accurate memories.

• True

• False

Expert witnesses in eyewitness identification can educate juries leading to a better and more fair evaluation of an eyewitness's testimony.

• True

• False

Fillers in a lineup should NOT match the description of the suspect to prevent confusion

• True

• False

A witness should be pressured to pick a perpetrator from the provided line up

• true

• false

Identification procedures should be videotaped whenever possible.

• True

• False

When a forensic scientist provides information in a criminal trial, the facts he or she presents are based on:

• Eyewitness accounts.
• Educated guesses.
• Circumstantial evidence.
• Scientific investigation.

Over time, eyewitnesses who choose a suspect out of a lineup have _______ confidence about the choice they made, even if they were incorrect.

• Decreasing (less)

• the same amount of (equal

• Increasing (more)

When the suspect and the witness are from two different racial backgrounds, the eyewitness is ______ likely to misidentify the suspect.

• more

• less

• equally

In cases that have been overturned by the Innocence Project, eyewitness testimony was incorrect __________ of the time.

• 98%

• 25%

• 87%

• 70%