Eyewitness reports are unreliable in court. There are many reasons why eyewitness accounts are unreliable. Some reasons are people don't have a good memory and are wrong about the real criminal, another reason is people don't have perfect eyesight and even the mind plays tricks on you. In a 1984 report, there was a report that Jennifer had been raped. Jennifer chose Ronald Cotton based on a photo and physical lineup. she was sure Ronald was the rapist, but a decade later DNA proved Ronald was not the real rapist. Elizabeth Loftus said that "Jennifer didn't recognize the real rapist because she chose Ronald first and in her mind she thought he was the real rapist", so her mind was on Ronald and no one d 'other. You can't trust eyewitness accounts because the human mind can't remember some things. “Every year in the United States, more than 75,000 eyewitnesses identify criminal suspects and studies suggest that a third of them are wrong.” That’s 25,000 erroneous eyewitness accounts. All these errors cost the lives of the victims. in this week's staff article it says that the...