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If eyewitness testimony is almost invariably unreliable, there are a lot of people rotting away in prisons who need to be released immediately.

[John H K]

If eyewitness testimony is almost invariably unreliable, there are a lot of people rotting away in prisons who need to be released immediately.

Most of the flood of inmates released on DNA evidence the past few years were convicted based on eyewitness testimony.

And it's not ALWAYS worthless...it just needs to be used carefully; investigators need to be trained to be certain they don't contaminate witnesses, etc.

[Iwo Jima]

"If eyewitness testimony is almost invariably unreliable, there are a lot of people rotting away in prisons who need to be released immediately."

Oh! So that's why the government wouldn't call any of the many witnesses who could place Timothy McVeigh at the scene of the OKC bombing! I thought that it was because they would also identify a Middle Eastern terrorist who was with him, but now I know that it is because no one believes eyewitnesses and so if dozens of witnesses said that he was there, well that would prove that he wasn't there. I get it. [NOT!] </sarcasm