Eyewitness accounts are not reliable in court. There are many reasons why eyewitness accounts are unreliable. Some reasons are that people don't have good memory and confuse the real criminal, another reason is that people don't have perfect eyesight and mind also plays tricks on you. in a 1984 report there was a report that Jennifer had been raped. Jennifer chose Ronald Cotton from a photo and physical background. she was sure that Ronald was the rapist but ten years later DNA proved that Ronald was not the real rapist. Elizabeth Loftus said that "Jennifer didn't recognize the real rapist because she picked Ronald first and in her mind she thought he was the real rapist", so her mind was set on Ronald and no one else. You can't trust eyewitness testimony because the human mind can't remember some things. “Each year more than 75,000 eyewitnesses identify criminal suspects in the United States, and studies suggest that at least a third of them are wrong.” There are 25,000 incorrect eyewitness accounts. All those mistakes claimed the lives of the victims. in the staff article of the week it says that the...