Repeated exposure to the suspect in various forms during an investigation can severely distort eyewitness identification, leading witnesses to feel confident about memories that may have been altered.
The common belief that identifying a suspect in a lineup or a mug book is a reliable indicator of whose memory is accurate is fundamentally flawed; memory is malleable.
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